Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investment Banker Willard H. York, 36, hustled his wife, mother, son & daughter into the family sedan and began the usual Sunday drive from his ranch to church in San Antonio. He had a particularly gritty rag to chew over with his conscience. On March 19, the SEC had filed suit against him. It charged that York had done business while insolvent, and had used customers' securities without their consent. The same day, Dr. Lloyd Irving Ross, one of San Antonio's top surgeons, had filed suit for $80,279. Dr. Ross was an old friend, a fellow Methodist...
...psychotics who are, or ought to be, in institutions, a large proportion are curable. Recovery from depression is "possible and usual." Two famous sufferers, cited by Dr. Bond, who recovered: Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln...
High Barbaree (MGM) is distinguished from the usual run of screen romances because it uses some of the elements of genuine romance, and uses them sincerely. Its theme: dreams and ideals, lost and at length regained...
...occasion he excited the sympathy of a group of people who saw him walking along the shore overlooking to bay. He was coat-less as usual; the thermometer read ten below. Mrs. Pound, who tells the story, was embarrassed to confess to the commiserators that the "poor man" was her husband, as she was swathed warmly in mink...
Even John Lewis* seemed in less vengeful mood. From what leaked out about his starting demands on the private operators, they were, as usual, stupendous: a five-day, 40-hour week, at the same pay as for the present 54-hour week; doubling of the 5?: royalty for his welfare fund on each ton of coal mined; inclusion of supervisors in his contract. But for the first time since 1943 he had agreed to separate sessions with Northern and Southern operators. Mineworkers headquarters henchmen were already talking confidently of an agreement by June 15-if not before...