Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sons of public men nowadays are seldom permitted to participate in their parent's official experiences. The usual feeling is that they should be shielded from fame rather than educated by means of it. A century ago the attitude was different. For example, 16-year-old James Gallatin, son of famed Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, was taken to Europe as private secretary on the father's diplomatic mission which resulted in the Treaty of Ghent...
...become a racket in itself. This play, the latest in the Fight Game series, improves on many of its predecessors by furnishing a complete set of characters of its own instead of "ad-libbing" from the newspapers. The square jawed hero, for example, is a lightweight instead of the usual heavyweight. He is not a facsimile of Benny Leonard, Sammy Mandell or any other celebrity. He is simply Bobby Murray, a type instead of a borrowed headline. Actor Richard Taber makes the part into a distinct, albeit dull personality. Actor John Meehan does even better, much better, as Peter Murray...
...during that time Sophomores from the Experimental College of the University of Wisconsin will be Juniors in the College of Letters and Science and will compete scholastically with other Juniors who reached their class by more usual courses. The Meikeljohn Juniors will have spent their Freshman year in intense, study of Athenian civilization, their Sophomore year in study of U. S. civilization. They will be the first class to have left the Experimental College...
...were three outstanding reasons for going to see the music show whence this cinema derived its name, part of its plot. Those reasons-Gershwin music. Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw-are missing in the movie. Instead there is Colleen Moore, never a great inducement for movie going, hardly more than usual in this offering, which tells of a noble English girl who, besieged by ennui and an unwanted suitor, goes down to the sea in a small ship, drifts into a storm, is rescued by rum-runners...
...play, poetry-is "repose in stimulation," and adds deeper meanings to the usual activities of life. The fullness of life depends upon the richness of its meanings, meanings can only be expressed in symbols, and symbols are province...