Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Junior Varsity baseball continued in its usual groove and Freshman baseball continued in its usual rut yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field as the Jayvees tagged Leicester with a 19 to 2 defeat while Dartmouth was taking the Yardlings for a 5 to 3 ride...
...probably the most difficult role that Sullivan ever wrote, was sung imperfectly by Helen Roberts, but it would be difficult to imagine anyone acting a winsome part more winsomely. In the somewhat lesser role of Edith, Denise Findley gave by far the best female performance. The sets were as usual wonderful, and the conducting of Isadore Godfrey was for the most part an improvement on the D'Oyly Carte recording. His original use of the accompanying bass and of the French horns was one of the many surprises of the evening. Among other pleasures were the singing of the "Paradox...
Late one night last week, as usual, the New York Times went to bed. But the 48-page Times that cascaded from one of the big presses was not at all as usual. The right-hand "ear" on Page 1 identified it as the "T.E.P." (for Temporary Emergency Project) Edition. A limited edition of a few hundred copies, it looked almost the same as the regular Times, except that the type was larger. But it was produced, without benefit of printers, by Vari-Type...
...from the stage at the opening night of James's play, Guy Domville. It seems to have been a fairly good play; in 1930 (35 years later), the London Times called it "that beautiful, harshly treated play . . ." The producer of Guy Domville was sanguine, though James, with his usual misgivings stayed away opening night. Instead, he went to the Haymarket and saw Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, which had just opened. James considered Wilde's play crude, bad, clumsy, feeble, vulgar-but it appeared to be a complete success-"and that gave me the most fearful...
...otherwise the big derby was its usual noisy self. An insurgent from M.I.T., Peter Dayton by name, crashed into the line of march and was soon heaved into the drink by several hundred howling women in graduation garb and beanies...