Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victory. Soviet troops had advanced more than 200 miles into China's great Northern Province of Manchuria on two fronts (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week there should have been bonfires, triumphant parades, lusty bellowing of the Internationale in Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat...
...fright and confusion grew from panic to anarchy. Soldiers deserted their colors, looted indiscriminately. Hundreds of refugees who straggled into the larger Manchurian towns and Harbin, the capital, had been robbed of all their possessions by Chinese, not Soviet troops. Some were stark naked, plucked to the skin. As usual, a good many fingers had been cut off by Chinese soldiers impatient to snatch rings from old people with rheumatic knuckles...
...knowledge that Tulane was the only unbeaten and untied team in the Southern Conference made the Louisiana statesmen overeager. Profiting by penalties, tall Captain Billy Banker and his green wave worked in their usual style. Tulane 21, Louisiana State...
...they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson he boards with his impoverished cousins, the Tracys, and discovers an old house, the Lorburn family mansion, built in the early 19th Century style of "Hudson River Bracketed." Vance runs the usual gamut of the literarily ambitious small-town boy; he discovers that he is no poet, goes home to Euphoria, gets a job on the local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three years later he gets back to Manhattan on the strength of one published story, marries...
This concert is the first held in accordance with the recent change in the policies of the Glee Club. It is offered in place of the usual Symphony Hall series. Officials of the Glee Club announced that this innovation has been inaugurated as a step toward the enlarging of the scope of the repertoire of the organization. Feeling that the more important choral works have been composed for mixed voices, the leaders believe that the accomplishment of the Glee Club will be more satisfying and natural, though the number of Symphony Hall appearances has been decreased. The club will present...