Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genuine pacifists left in the U. S. is Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier of Hoople, N. Dak. As usual when Congress opened, Senator Frazier offered an amendment to the Constitution, declaring...
Hopkins. No paler, no more haggard than usual, Harry Hopkins stepped to the witness chair knowing that, unlike Frankfurter and Murphy, he was going to receive a going-over. With an air of deliberate calm he lit cigaret after cigaret; inhaled deeply; exhaled slowly; looked saturninely at his questioners from lowered brows; stroked his jaw; hunched his shoulders; thrust out his chin-a homely figure...
Chase National's bristle-haired Winthrop Aldrich (also a lawyer before he was a banker) as usual took on the job of stating banking's case. Said he: "The fact that total commercial, industrial and agricultural loans have failed to rise in proportion to the great increase in demand deposits, has been cited by many as evidence of a reluctance on the part of the banking community to meet legitimate credit needs. ... In no true sense can credit be 'created' by banks. . . . There must be in the first place willing borrowers...
Storm signals from across the seas give Hollywood an excuse to present a new version of "Dawn Patrol," first presented in 1930. The war drama, now at the Metropolitan, combines the usual thrills of aerial combat with a psychological study of a junior officer's hatred for his superior. Between too frequent shots of Errol Flynn's frank; boyish face, there are healthy little sermons about "the criminal lunatics sitting around a big table." For although Basil Rathbone does a good job as the villain, Mars is the real villain. The "poor man's war" angle is unconvincingly put forward...
...some composition course during his college career, if not, by compulsion, at least by strong recommendation. Composition cuts across fields of concentration--in later years it may be as useful to the chemist as to the English concentrator--and hence such a procedure would not be vulnerable to the usual criticisms of regimentation and preplanning...