Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Egypt. Every afternoon last week fat King Fuad of Egypt took his usual garden ride on one or the other of his two favorite mules. Unperturbed, His Majesty read that Jews in Cairo had set upon and beaten an Arab "nearly to death"-the only racial disturbance reported in his realm...
...matter-of-fact fashion the editor of Ceske Slovo announced that he could now tell what took place in Belgrade last spring at the annual and, as usual, deathly secret conference of "Little Entente" statesmen...
Remaining was still the usual possibility: an All-California final between Miss Wills and Miss Jacobs. But all unexpectedly, it became international, for England's gaunt Mrs. Phoebe Watson in her semi-final match against Helen Jacobs, drove deep low arcs, came seldom...
...Welsh choir from Port Talbot captured the principal choral event. The judges, watchful of timbre, balance, locution, placed Pennsylvania's Anthracite Choir fifth. Important as usual was the bardic contest, in which young poets vie to win fame in the lyric annals of Wales. Last week Caradoc Prichard, 23, Cardiff journalist, established a record by winning for the third consecutive year. The Archdruid, robed in white with a golden breastplate, commanded the people to rise and sing Hen Whad Fy Nhadau. In purple raiment, Bard Prichard walked to the presidential chair, seated himself amid a circle of white-clad...
Speaking to the summer faculty and students of Columbia University he was, as usual, prevailingly optimistic. Said he: ''There will be more revolutionary changes in our forms of ecclesiastical organization than we now can easily imagine. . . . Religion itself will always rise unconquered . . . for the complicated life forced on us by our mechanized civilization only emphasizes the difficulty and evokes the need of spiritual superiority in the individual...