Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill to get the thing done was actually reported out by the House Census Committee last spring but was, as usual, recommitted by the House to the Committee, i. e. shelved (TIME, May 28). Now, last week, Representative Clarence J. McLeod of Michigan improved the shining hours of his summer vacation by sending letters to all Congressmen begging to have Reapportionment given the right of way when Congress sits in December...
...ever so noticeable "faux pas" in your issue of July 16, where, on page 9, col. i, under the heading "Bandwagon" (O how it pains me to set this down!) you committed the horrible blunder of referring to Senator James Thomas (Tom Tom) Heflin -without (terribly so) the usual and customary appositional phrase which begins, "who mortally hates...
Musical festivals are part of the summer in Teutonic Europe. This is really Schubert's year and will be so observed in Vienna. Bayreuth, however, has its usual Wagner festival with four weeks of Tristan, Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, ending August 16; Munich has a Wagner-Mozart'Festival from the end of July until August...
Head Absent. The head of the Spanish Government is His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo De Rivera, Marques de Estella and Dictator of Spain. Excitement over His Majesty's return coincided with a furore of curiosity about His Excellency. Gossip-loving courtiers envied King Alfonso more than usual, because he was, last week, perhaps the only man in Spain who could with propriety ask Dictator De Rivera just what is the state of his relations with the Señorita Mercedes de Castellanos (TIME, June 25). When King and Dictator clasped hands, last week, and retired for a most...
...roster of re-engaged singers attracted, as usual, tremulous attention. It listed 34 sopranos, 12 mezzo-sopranos and contraltos, 16 tenors, 15 baritones, 14 bassos and five conductors. With less important names deleted, the roster reads as follows...