Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans and colored folk like their sermons long" (TIME, Oct. 16). Let me say, first, that I like your usual use of similes, metaphors, and adjectives and it is probably true that a great many colored folk like this type of sermon. But in a world sick with prejudice, I hate to have TIME help prejudice along in one of our most pressing domestic problems. To generalize upon the colored people, putting them alongside of Hitler and the Germans ... is not a way to work for democracy...
...most damnable thing!" cried Democrat John Dempsey of New Mexico, who was absent (as usual) when the committee first voted to publish the list. Three minutes late at a meeting called to hear his belated objections, Committeeman Dempsey vainly stormed, with Mr. Voorhis vainly carried his protests to the House floor. Least excited were those immediately concerned. The League's publicized members ranged all the way from a Capitol charwoman, who makes 50? an hour, to NLRB's Edwin Seymour Smith, who makes $10,000 a year, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman...
Miss Smith boasts petite, rather than the usual robust, features, saying she is 5 feet 4 inches tall and only 112 pounds. Atop her sleek frame rests a golden blond head. Miss Coleman, who is a Sophomore at St. Mary's, failed to list measurements...
...usual, critics mourned that the right artists were being honored at the wrong time. More direct cause for mourning came from the fact that this will be the last Carnegie International until the end of World War II. War I stopped the show for six years; Depression...
...there is nothing up to velocipedism that is not contributing to the service of the army. . . . In the use of the military bicycle as practised in England, [suppose that] a small body of cyclists, ten in number (two sections and a half-section), with officers and bugler, marching in usual order of half-sections-that is, by 'twos'-are attacked by cavalry. At the word of command, 'Halt! Prepare for cavalry! Form square!' each man dismounts. . . . The rifles are lifted out of their clips. . . . The machines are placed upside down. . . . Lastly, each man, as he lies...