Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the first order of business was finding the youngest and the oldest. Youngest: Orlando LeValley, 97, of Caro, Mich. Oldest: William Henry Osborn, 103, of Joplin, Mo. But National Secretary Cora Gillis wasn't sure: "Sometimes they change their age from year to year. Some years they want to be the oldest, some years the youngest...
...faces these privileges and embarrassments about as usual (i.e., as a dastard in love and a laggard in war). The climax: a fight with Joseph Schildkraut, in which the antagonists get fouled up in an 18th Century chamber orchestra...
Programs planned call for the usual classical and popular music hours, news, and continuation of the radio workshop, which does original dramatic features. Broadcasting will start every evening at 7:30 and remain on until 12 o'clock. The Network's call letters are WHEN and can be heard by tuning in at 800 on the dial...
...that Curran & Co. could make a damaging cut in the vital flow of iron ore, coal and limestone to U.S. producers who must overstock before the Lakes freeze. The 70 ships manned by members of the A.F.L.'s Seafarer's International Union sailed as usual-despite one furious fist fight with N.M.U. picketers. But more & more freighters owned by the 24 operators with whom neither the N.M.U. nor the S.I.U. have contracts were tied up in sympathy strikes by their crews as they came to port. This was precisely what Joe Curran hoped...
...Lennep with his usual genial air urges all visitors to return again with a guest; and despite the collection's great intrinsic quality, Van Lennep asserts, "The collection is not a museum piece. It is here to be used by anyone who is interested in any phase of the theatre...