Word: usual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employe, hardworking, father of two, conscientious. Artfully into the record Counsel Toland introduced a series of memos from Board Member Leiserson to Board Chairman J. Warren Madden. In them, Dr. Leiserson: 1) accused Mr. Witt of giving oral reports of cases differing from the record, complaining about "the usual irregularities in procedure characteristic of the Secretary's office"; 2) agreeing with Chairman Madden that the Universal Pictures case in which Mr. Witt was involved "smelled"; 3) protesting about Mr. Witt "and his amateur detectives"; 4) moving that Mr. Witt be fired; 5) asserting that neither the Secretary...
Said Mrs. Garner: "They're hunting deer as usual. [But] I'm hoping they'll bring back a turkey...
...cops will tread their quiet beats, and the commuters will wait peacefully in the Square for the Arlington bus, glad to be rid of the students rudely elbowing their way through the crowded safety zone. In the Yard, the snow will fall, eventually to melt away undisturbed by the usual hands of the students scooping up the flakes and pounding them into snowballs. Passengers in the great airliners flying over Cambridge will still look down and say, "See all those brick buildings by the river there, that's Harvard." But Harvard really won't be there any more...
Perhaps it is the novelty alone which raises this picture high above the usual type of film which Americans have seen pour out of the sunny colony on the Pacific coast, for it has a delightful lightness and freshness which Hollywood seems rarely able to attain...
This season, grand opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan opened with a slightly fussier fuss than usual. Last week, however, the Met got in the groove-a few new voices and a new red carpet, but the same old scenery, same old gilded box holders, and opera's perennial bright angel, NBC, occupying Grand Tier Box 44 for the Saturday matinee, Boris Godunoff...