Word: usual
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Trusting that this is typical of the wishes of many, and that the audience of over one thousand at the last concert is a good testimony of appreciation, the Glee Club sees no reason why the usual number of two concerts might not be increased to three or four another year. There are three factors which enter into such a question: The expense, the time spent by the singers in giving concerts, and the factor of restraint in not overdoing a good thing...
...fine brick for canary David's headstone; her turning agnostic because no God smote her for saying "golly-golly-golly" all through church; her discovery of The Count of Monte Cristo, and amazement, on being called to supper, that all her humdrum world was going on just as usual...
...Fields and Chester Conklin are the protagonists in "Fools for Luck", the Paramount comedy at the Metropolitan is week. The team performs much as usual in a picture based on the adventures of a slick promoter who comes to a small town with a get rich quick scheme. A grip full of oil stock, the beautiful daughter of Huntersville's leading citizen, small town life de luxe, all these things are mixed up in a rather ordinary film which has a few lsolated laughs and moments of spirited action...
...persons on the chairs were, in the opinion of the constables, "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency." Therefore strong hands were laid upon the young woman, who remained passive, and upon the gentleman, who roared: "Hands off! I'm not the usual riffraff! I'm a man of substance...
...editing could delete the copybook banalities: moderate exercise (tennis) spells health, health spells good complexion; nor improve the laborious heaping up of sentences that recall Freshman compositions in which every preposition helped to attain the required thousand words. In this case the required 214 pages contain the usual directions for shifting the weight from the right to the left foot; a lucid diagram of the centre theory (advising for net play a deep ball centre, which opens up less of the player's court to the opponent's return); repeated admonitions to practice...