Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Campbell quoted from a telephone conversation with Andy May: "Those fellows are good friends of mine and have been very kindly to me in the past about some things and I want to help them if I could." (When General Campbell said he had, as usual, made a recorded transcript of the talk, other worried Congressmen lost sight of the investigation completely, began a furious hue-& -cry about "wire-tapping...
...Stone was aboard for Manhattan's tabloid PM. Presumably with the aid of U.S. Zionists, he had joined an illegal group "somewhere in Europe," accompanied them from station to station by land, and through the British blockade by sea. For hardworking, squirrelly, 38-year-old Izzy Stone, whose usual dish of tea is badgering U.S. Secretaries of State at press conferences, it was an offbeat adventure. For PM, which makes a play for New York City's 2,000,000 Jews, Izzy's journey had the promise of some first-rate news beats...
Britain's hopes were pinned on her aging showman Henry Cotton, now 39. He rolled up to the Royal & Ancient clubhouse as haughty and pigeon-toed as ever, in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dressed in a salmon-pink sweater and blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...
...usual, nobody knew exactly where he was in the race. The New York Herald Tribune, in a burst of journalistic enterprise, sent an airborne reporter circling over the fleet ("first air coverage of such an event"). He saw a fleet of sails fanned out, with 70 miles of smooth water between the leader and the tailender. The backwash of a baby hurricane just missed the racers. Even so, one sloop's topmast was sprung...
Last semester, a Yardling, and a religious breakfast attender by the way, got the usual permission about the middle of the term to eat his morning meats in the Union rather than have to take the long walk down to Dunster House...