Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monday morning he will arise in his S Street home as usual, put on his cutaway, have breakfast, scan his speech once more. Fidgety, he may peek out the window to see who is coming up the street. Finally, up will drive Senator Moses and Representative Tilson, the Congressional Committee, in a hired car. At 10:30 Mr. Hoover will put on his silk hat and drive off with them down Connecticut Avenue. Thereafter the schedule will be as follows...
Here, for example, are 17 miscellaneous resignations which the President must study, accept or reject. Mr. Forster has already sent the usual form letter acknowledging their receipt. And whom does the President wish to appoint Collector of the Port of New Orleans? Mr. Forster guessed it. Here is the lucky man's name, all in proper form for submission to the Senate for confirmation. . . . Now here is a report and a recommendation from the Tariff Commission for a 50% duty increase on cheesecloth. If the President wishes to follow this recommendation, Mr. Forster will prepare the customary order and proclamation...
...Chicago for more than a decade, Chicago seemed unanimously pleased. Critic Maurice Rosenfeld of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "The company began its two weeks' season . . . with great artistic success, with fine stage settings and management, and with a roster of Wagner singers which is far above the usual cast...
...Coach Arnold Horween to make it clear that he will hardly interfere in such an important matter as the choice of the latter's assistants next season. He now emphatically states that, in the last analysis, the selection of line, backfield, and other coaches will be left as usual to the judgement of the head coach...
...Bingham shews his usual acumen in disregarding the well-meant but confusing newspaper dictation with its numerous assumptions. His policy furnishes the assurance that the merits of all prospective coaches will be employed to the best advantages and that when Mr. Horween relinquishes his post the most capable mentor available will succeed...