Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seniors can hardly be blamed if they gaze for the last time upon familiar surroundings with a brimming heart. Some of them are simply grifters who are sorry to see the end of a 10 to 2 workday. Some are intense individuals who strove joyfully for four years in a fascinating welter of ideas and knowledge. Most are probably a mixture of both types. All, it is safe to say, are a little touched by stage fright and resignation. The College is behind them. The world is closing...
...Troubaders, Braves Field's three piece band which played for 1929 yesterday, found themselves joined by a familiar musician from the class-Williams English professor Koy Lamson, who back in the late Twenties founded the Harvardians, a band which for years was the Gold Coast's best known dance unit . . . Lamson has since become as accomplished performer on the recorder as well his native clarinet...
There were such veterans on the list as American Tobacco Co. President Vincent Riggio ($484,202), Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace ($293,279), and William Randolph Hearst ($300,000). But the others were not so familiar. They were: E. H. Little, president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. ($350,000); A. A. Somerville, vice president of Manhattan's R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Inc., which distributes chemicals ($319,398); Seton Porter, president of National Distillers Products Corp. ($310,000); Theodore Seltzer, president of Bengue Inc., which makes Ben-Gay ointment ($295,613); and G. A. Bryant, president of a Cleveland...
...dialect that Amos 'n' Andy would consider extravagant. In his New York office, shapely Tally, possessor of a delightful A-to-B cultural range, was in charge. Richard's heart, however, belonged to Zoe Else, a New York psychiatrist whose attractions were heightened by a familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations that was almost as inclusive as his own. In spite of verbal protestations of physical and emotional fireworks on both sides, their affair never climbed above the level of a quiz contest...
...tomorrow on foundations that are firmly laid today. He needs no contemporary spokesman to explain and interpret - for the simple reason that any reader in 1949 can uneasily see his own shattered features in Winston Smith, can scent in the world of 1984 a stench that is already familiar...