Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman kept smiling, but his wife was tuckered out. Gamely they had pumped more than 1,200 hands of foreign diplomats, U.S. Cabinet officers, Congressmen and their wives. Last week's annual White House diplomatic reception-the second since the war-was, as usual, peacock-splendid, stiff with protocol and hardly hilarious...
...Arizona's grapefruit crop went to the canners, growers, as usual, dumped 50 tons of culls (undersized fruits) on the desert, to keep the price up. Local residents, as usual, promptly picked the dumping ground clean...
...storm howled along the Portuguese coast. But that night, as usual, the 20-ship fishing fleet put out from the villages of Leixões, Matosinhos, Francelos, and the others. Fishing was good, but as the wind steadily increased, ship after ship put back to port. Only four remained at sea. The storm became a hurricane...
Most of this nonsense goes on in & around Manhattan, with the usual photo-finish race between Hope's cowardice and his concupiscence. It passes the time painlessly enough, though very little of it is quite as funny as Bob's early moments as a disc jockey...
...always, commercial fiction writers hammered out their fables according to formula, exploiting the daydreams of the young ("This girl might have been YOU") and the complacencies of the self-deceived. Sexual pandering in the form of the novel had its usual quota of professional and amateur practitioners. As always, however, a few hundred young men & women, fascinated by the charms of art and the oddities of real experience, tried to write honestly and well...