Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answering a barrage of questions from the floor, Pettee maintained that all the usual pre-Francist, conditions exist in the United states at the present time: confusion, restlessness, and lack of faith. As examples he pointed to the increase of gambling, the growth of "fancy cults" such as astrology and numerology, and the increasing emphasis of the New Deal on temporary palliatives...
Harlow's Princeton scouts have given him the usual, "Princeton will be tough," Wes Fesler and Lyal Clark did the spy work , and they left the Navy game Saturday rather definitely impressed with the size of the Bengal line. All seven of the line are over six feet, with left tackle Tierney weighing 226 and left guard Horring tipping...
...people of Troy encountered centuries ago. Sometimes it is boldly rolled up in front of the statue of John Harvard; sometimes it innocently squats at a rear doorway. Anyhow, during this first scholastic month, it has been hanging around quite too regularly, thereby shattering the usual official complacency at Harvard's never center. How the horse gets in is a problem which has not been solved, even by the vigilance of Mr. Apted's stalwarts. Some days it just appears, that's all. And nobody knows when it will come again--or why. But officers of the University inside know...
Hamlet (by William Shakespeare; produced by Maurice Evans). Biggest Shakespeare news in the theatre last season was a Julius Caesar cut to half its ordinary size. Biggest Shakespeare news this season may well be a Hamlet swollen to twice its usual bulk. Last week Actor-Manager Maurice Evans (Richard II) rang up the curtain at 6:30 p.m. on "the first uncut Hamlet in New York" before a half-fashionable, half-earnest first-night audience who sat back grimly in their seats and waited to see if they could take it. When, after allowing a half-hour intermission for dinner...
...elucidation requires not so much scholars as detectives.* When seen on the stage in its full proportions, Hamlet is possibly more of a riddle than ever; but at least, by offering the spectator all the clues, it gives him a far better chance to guess for himself. In the usual acting version, Hamlet confines itself to a single complex character study; uncut, it becomes also a swirling, tumultuous drama of court life and court intrigue. Such characters as Polonius, Fortinbras, the King take on added size. Denmark's dark, uneasy political fortunes constantly impinge upon the action. Some...