Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place of the usual, objectionable mode of dancing, they urge back-to-back waltzing, with gospel hymns in place of the modern, "voluptuous" music. The hymns, they conceded, 'might be played with such rhythms as to be appropriate for the purpose...
Practically every field of honest and, possibly, questionable, endeavor is included among the remaining vocations. Manufacturing, education, insurance and merchandising draw over five from the class. The usual amount of dry wit is present in one man's statement that he wants to be a beach-comber, and author's that he intends to become a "raconteur"-Dwight Fiske...
Listening to the two boys arguing, Vag suddenly realizes he's never been on a roller-coaster. Tonight's the night to start! "Seven times is my usual quota," says the Vag nonchalantly. "Anyone join...
Biggest alumni school was at University of Chicago, where 3,500 alumni began an eight-day term of lectures, discussions and movies, interspersed with the usual dinners, excursions and shenanigans. Chicago's alumni school, whose purpose is not to stuff but to stimulate, had as lecturers President Robert Maynard Hutchins, U. S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, NLRB's Chairman J. Warren Madden, University professors. Alumni heard lectures on What Is Progressive Education? Can Man Make Good? What Can We Expect from the New Pope...
...mise en scéne, Young Mr. Lincoln had a world première on Decoration Day in the Fox-Lincoln Theatre in Springfield. Two trainloads of guest critics, Hollywood columnists and cinema stars attended, Springfield fat-purses paid $3.30 for orchestra seats, the rest paid the usual 40?. All heard Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, hired by Producer Zanuck for $6,000, sing America. Only complaint Springfield had against the film was that Abe Lincoln arrived in Springfield not on muleback, but on horseback...