Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...axiom that a horse opera is judged solely by the amount of gore sprayed around the set, Republic Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...
Roebuck and Co. catalogue, printed on a poorer-than-usual quality of paper, was being eagerly scanned by thousands who not so long ago had trooped to department-store perfume counters in their tin hats...
...Sacred Cow for a flight to the Key West naval base.* His first day there, the President began wiping out the faint traces of strain from his Mexican trip and the feverish conferences on Greece by breaking a habit: he got up at 8 a.m. instead of his usual...
Meanwhile, in Paris, Messiaen was composing a "very important work" commissioned by the Boston Symphony's Conductor Serge Koussevitzky. It is a symphony, he said, which will have eight movements instead of the usual four...
...Goldwyn managed, as usual, to get foot in mouth once: taking pains to commend Hoagy Carmichael, he referred to the singer-composer as "Hugo...