Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual Captain Ulysses Lupien will be on the initial sacks. To date the hard-hitting captain has gone hitless in four games, but nobody is worried over a permanent slump for Lupe who led the nine at bat last season...
That the "strikers" did not pull the switches but instead carried on as usual without benefit of outside management was at once relieving and disturbing. Here was a strike that was not a strike: the "strikers" were working and the product was being produced. (Whether or not the "strikers" expected to be paid for working while striking was not clear.) Unintentionally, militant Michigan Labor had, in effect, provided an object lesson in bloodless revolution...
...kept selling J. I. Case short until he had made huge gains, sloganizing nervous Wall Street at this time with respect to all stocks: "Sell 'em! Sell 'em! They're not worth anything!" Last week famed "Sell 'em Ben" Smith was close-mouthed as usual, but expansive Francis W. Rickett glowingly described his conference with General Lázaro Cárdenas, the "New Deal" President of Mexico. The issue, according to Briton Rickett, is whether the Fascist Dictators can be kept from hogging Mexican bargain oil and this precious fluid saved for the great Democracies...
...Porter high of Anything Goes, You Never Know may be slicked up enough by fall to run it a close second on Broadway. Best songs at present: From Alpha to Omega, a catalogue of compliments in the style of You're the Top; You Never Know, in the usual sultry, husky Holmanner. Best revue bit: Actress Velez skipping brightly about as Katharine Hepburn, Gloria Swanson, Simone Simon, Shirley Temple in turn...
Because last week was the 100th running of the Grand National, the old-legend of the founding of steeplechasing was retold more frequently than usual-how one hot night in the early 1770s a befuddled country squire led his guests out in their night-shirts, mounted them, and led them in a wild race over hedge, fence & field to distant Nachton Village Church steeple. A view of the finish of that first steeplechase was engraved by John Harris in 1839, the year of the first Grand National. That year and for over two decades afterwards all steeplechases had a faintly...