Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking specific information (e.g., "what's this new country club in town people have been asking about?"), an invitation from a local civic organization to participate in one of its projects, the usual run of publicity agents plugging their clients, people who dropped in to express their views on the political situation, and those who were lonely and just wanted someone to talk...
...front cover there is a colored photograph of the usual elegant female, standing on a chair while a grey-haired, spectacled, crushed-looking man in shirtsleeves kneels at her feet, doing something to the edge of her skirt. If one looks closely one finds that actually he is about to take a measurement with a yardstick. But to a casual glance he looks as though he were kissing the hem of the woman's garment-not a bad symbolical picture of American civilization, or at least of one important side...
Back to Manhattan from her first postwar inspection of her villa in Capri came best-dressed Mrs. Harrison Williams, in what the tabloid Daily Mirror called "a pale beige wool dress, with a deeper-than-usual neckline and longer-than-usual skirt." How had she found things? Said she: "A great many things are gone, including a most wonderful wine cellar. Not a bottle remains." But she kept her chin up. "C'est la guerre," said Mrs. Williams...
...room floor. Wrapped in complicated shuttles between heaven and hell, past and present, the play, according to one member of the east who ventured to take a flyer on an explanation, is one great satire; on faddism, on reincarnation, and on satire itself. The main characters are placed, as usual, at the three points of the triangle, and they, with the rest of the cast, are flashed back and forth by the sorcery of one Hector Rigoletto, to their counterparts in the past...
...Every other wrestling team in the country but us seems to be loaded," was the word from Clarence chief Boston, head coach of the Crimson matmen, yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building. Lack of enough good men in the lighter weights, inexperience, and a heavier than usual schedule against the best teams in the East are street other reasons why Boston is pessimistic abut the changes for his team to have a successful season this year...