Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power of his real triumphs they fully establish. Not only the effect of these paintings, which other critics have expressed not quite so well: "Fundamentally they are static, not inert or dead, but active as a tower, a pier or a buttress is active. . . . Composed not only in the usual sense of having their parts disposed in an orderly arrangement, but in the sense in which we speak of a person's 'composure.' . . ." But also, in exhaustive detail and supplemented by analyses of 81 paintings (147 are reproduced), the means by which the effect was attained...
...long after writing this book, Odon von Horvath was walking along the Champs Elysees in Paris. The usual crowd was all around him, straining against a high wind. It was June, and the trees were gay and green with their new foliage-except for one huge, dying chestnut tree. A sudden gust swept against it. It tottered, cracked, started to fall. Von Horvath, preoccupied, did not hear the people scream as he walked into its shadow. The dead tree crushed him dead, and Odon von Horvath had his wish...
Budny admitted that the first time he ordered his usual seven glasses of milk in the Kirkland House dining hall everybody was astonished, especially the waitresses. "Now I never have to ask the waitresses; they bring it out for me automatically," he proudly attests...
Instead of skating down the ice at full speed, the usual method on a penalty shot, Harding carried the puck down beyond the blue line slowly, came to a full stop for a moment, and then whipped the puck past Goding on a hard knee-high shot that just caught the corner of the net. From then on the puck was in Dartmouth territory most of the time, with the Hoddermen trying desperately to tie up the score...
With Lutz it was anybody's ball game, but without him it was a different matter because his running mate Fred Heckel had a tough night and just could not get going. Aside from Lutz, the game was featured by Harvard's strong defensive play. Lupien played his usual top-notch game against the Tiger star, Johnny Meyerholtz, while Homer Peabody and Tread Ruml managed to hold lanky Captain Scof Scofield of the Orange and Black in check...