Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Currently published is a book* which contains, besides a sketchy but competent Hoover biography, a section of Hoover quotations and excerpts of the unfamiliar sort. They are not abundant. They include, of course, part of the famed Hoover essay, "In Praise of Izaak Walton," published last year in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, June 6, 1927). There is also the familiar bit about "Main Street Under Water" (the Mississippi flood...
...didn't know where I was. I didn't know my own name. When I looked out of the window at the landscape it looked dark and unfamiliar. Nobody will ever know how I struggled with myself to remember things. It took me 48 hours before I could win back enough reason to know I was Gene...
...Parisian, even to the accustomed tourist, the mêlée in the Rue de la Paix was not unfamiliar. Similar scenes had been observable just a year ago, and again last February. As every true follower of fashion knows, there are two months in the year when the couturiers open their magnificent salons to the view of a favored few, display their latest triumphs of design, reveal what the well-dressed woman will wear for the next six months...
Swan Song picks up familiar threads of earlier episodes in the saga, yet such is the artistry that the final portrait is complete for one unfamiliar with the earlier volumes. Such one, unfortunate, may indeed sense that dramatic action is over and done, but there remains the thrilling finale fire, and there remains a generous supply of Galsworthy's sound philosophy, and his engrossing though rather unsound sociology...
...Does the voter dislike or does he desire, at this time, the idea of a change, a transition from something familiar to something unfamiliar, in the governance...