Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift for badinage with movie stars and playwrights. ICCASP was divided. The primaries had indicated that the G.O.P. trend, noteworthy in other off-year elections, was as strong or stronger than ever. The Democrats would be on the defensive to hold what they have. ICCASP, as usual, would spend 99% of its energy for Democratic candidates, but not with quite the same high heart...
...last week's "circus" was different. The visitors came early, as usual, driving new or good used cars to the magnolia-shaded lot near the depot. Before long, there were some 500 cars around...
Charles G. Dawes, Vice President under Coolidge, reached 81 but unlike his usual practice, uttered no utterance...
...went all the usual cartoons, quips, verse, chichi shopping notes and critical departments. The entire issue, except for entertainment guides up front, was given over to a 30,000-word doomsday documentary on Hiroshima, by John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey. An editorial box explained that "everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of [the atom bomb...
...from stock in Howard da Silva's fine, complex, pent-up performance. William Bendix is real and frightening as his brutal and devoted first mate, and Brian Donlevy is resolute and sympathetic whenever he has a chance. Alan Ladd suffers, fights and makes up to womankind with his usual chilly proficiency and Barry Fitzgerald scuttles obscurely around in the galley, making all he can of his few lines...