Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidence of the small quota of winter sicknesses are the Stillman lists, Professor Bock claimed, which show, on a typical day only 17 men at the Infirmary, five in hospitals, and 11 resting at home, and which show few of the usual respiratory diseases...
...Movie Star Laraine Day. First, he had to wait for the California courts to grant her a divorce from her first husband (who had as good as called Leo a snake in the grass). When Miss Day's interlocutory decree came through last week, it was with the usual California stipulation that she would have to wait a year before remarrying...
...started, as usual, with small stakes. Winnings from small sums soon cease to satisfy, and when I staked and lost larger amounts, the anxiety occasioned was considerable. This anxiety has a twofold effect. It creates an inconsistency of disposition, good or bad temper showing itself according to the fluctuation of fortune -which is injurious to the backer's immediate circle and in particular to children. . . . Secondly, the anxiety which follows a losing run, the empty feeling in the stomach ... in time come to be appreciated in a masochistic fashion. They are part of the tension which gambling provides...
Burning-eyed Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen this week began his 17th series of radio talks for NBC's Catholic Hour. His voice, as usual, was as rich and sweet as zabaglione, but in his words rang a message to all who call themselves Christians. Excerpts...
...quail and Florida were not Bob Young's whole concern last week. As usual, he kept in daily communication with his New York office by telephone. Says he: "If I didn't keep my guard up all the time, those goddamned bankers would scalp me in a minute." (His habit of pronouncing "goddamned bankers" as if it were one word is so familiar to his banking friends that they no longer feel sworn...