Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, there was no open comment in Netherlands newspapers on the continuing crisis, but guarded references to it became more and more frequent in the press and in Parliament. With the nation's business marking time under a caretaker government, largely because no new Premier could be found courageous enough to face a showdown with his Queen, Juliana's realm, like her throne, was in a state of suspense. "If somebody doesn't take some action," said one worried government official, "you can be sure that we'll soon have both divorce and abdication...
...moviegoer old enough to be told that there is such a thing as homosexuality? Is it decent to suggest that there are worse things than adultery? The answer to both questions was a resounding no, and the studio applied the fig leaf to the offending parts. As usual in such cases, the drama has been seriously damaged (Playwright Robert Anderson wrote the script), but the sex is still fully in evidence. Indeed, the censor seems in most instances to have used the fig leaf as his own eye patch...
...Barnum. In 1882 Barnum gave Tufts a museum and from time to time provided it with animal skins to be stuffed for exhibit. Then in 1885 Barnum's most colossal specimen and the world's largest elephant in captivity, Jumbo, was tragically killed by a railroad train. As usual, Barnum promised the elephant's hide to Tufts. But first he took it on a tour of Europe, where twice as many people paid to see Jumbo stuffed (as compared to his earnings when he was alive...
...find allergy where none was suspected before came from Manhattan's aged (81) Allergist Arthur Fernandez Coca. Sometime medical director of Lederle laboratories, Dr. Coca did not begin to treat patients until he was 65, soon found that many who had puzzling sensitivities did not react with the usual wheal to scratch tests with any of the common causes of allergy. To explain this, he postulated that the patients must have a concealed reaction marked by quickening of the heartbeat. He called this supposed condition idioblapsis (literally, self-produced harm), sought to confirm it by noting rises...
...excessive cold hardly frightened away "the usual" in Cambridge. Rainfall totalled 5.07 inches, nearly double the normal amount...