Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cardinal Spark. As usual, 28-year-old Stanley Frank Musial, three times National League batting champion, was expected to spark the Cardinal attack. When he got off to a slow start the club sagged into seventh place. But last week, the indispensable Cardinal hit his stride and began to earn his $50,000 a year...
...driven by chunky Bill Holland, roared the usual two extra laps for insurance, its ruddy-faced owner hotfooted it from the pits to the victory cage, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief. "I feel wonderful," he said, with the tears still coming. He had narrowly missed seeing his three entries take first, second and fourth place; with only eight laps to go, one of Moore's cars had to drop out with a broken magneto strap. But by taking first and third, Moore won $65,855 in prizes, split (6s%-35%) with his drivers...
...usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The Lady from Shanghai; like the film, it was expensive, pointless, and covered a lot of geography...
...week's end, nobody had been locked up, nobody fined. As their buses banged along toward the Jail of the Lost Child, Tacuba Cemetery or Mercy Slaughterhouse, Mexicans heard as usual the consoling plunk-plunk of the minstrels' guitars, and the familiar words borne long ago by the wind that swept Mexico: // 7 am to die tomorrow, Let them kill me right away...
Pope Pius XII's step was springy and he mounted his throne with more than usual vigor. To thin, 87-year-old Msgr. Alfonso Carinci, Deacon of Protonotaries, he handed a brilliantly illuminated parchment manuscript-the papal bull* which proclaimed 1950 a Holy Year of pilgrimage to Rome. Then, with his face almost constantly lighted by smiles, he spoke to the mauve-robed Apostolic Protonotaries assembled before him, in the most optimistic terms he had used since before...