Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the fair companions of 1930 may raise complications. Some at the Union may find the assemblage of the elect too "representative" for their, happiness. And perhaps some in the Hall of Fame may be disappointed as usual with the great unwashed...
...rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone...
...unique character of college life. The conception of an existence at once free from financial responsibility and separated from family ties is far from generally the case in any college; yet there is sufficient element of truth to give it a glamor that sets it apart from the more usual way of living. It follows that the same interest in the unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron who shudders at the drinking-orgy reports from...
Budget: As usual Mr. Gilbert finds that the German Finance Ministry is "still under the influence of tendencies toward overspending and overborrowing. . . . The situation is one which bristles with difficulties." He again recommends a complete overhauling of the system whereby the various states of the German Republic still balance their budgets with funds contributed from the National Treasury...
...every corner the world around they took their stand last week as usual, just after nightfall. Tambourine shook, cornet squealed, trombone grunted. The thin bleat of pinched spinster voices, shrilling from time to time in accents of wailing fervor, took up the immemorial hymns. "Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb...