Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artisan is familiar enough in every school, and, alas, in every college. He is the tortoise of the class, who struggles wearily on before the proddings of his parents and his schoolmasters. In the discreet fastness of the faculty room, his masters will tell you that he is a complete moron. His mother, on the other hand, will assure you that he is really quite brilliant, only he is so shy and sensitive that his masters never know it, for he becomes tongue-tied in class and paralyzed in examinations. Often enough, both are wrong...
Even the most cursory readers of the daily press must be now familiar with the fact that the Senate is investigating the activities of a man whose chief claim to fame is that of most famous thrower of monkey wrenches in the machinery of progress. On his own representation, he blocked the famous Geneva conference for a trifling monetary consideration. That he bent every effort toward doing so, there is no doubt. That he was paid to do just that thing, the corporations which gave him the money are endeavoring to disprove. The situation is disagreeable to every one except...
...familiar--even the first year man with a sheet draped toga-wise about him, undergoing a few preliminary initiation stunts at the hands of a merry group of sophomores...
...myself, anyone familiar with the Congressional records knows that I do not represent any company of any kind, the National Security League or any other society. I have received many indorsements from patriotic organizations, however. I am well known and well disliked. I fight internationalism, pacifism, and communism. I make many enemies and many friends...
There, snubbed to a mooring mast for the air races was the Los Angeles. "Wild Indians could hardly have made more noise than Commander Rosendahl and Lieut. Jack Richardson at the familiar sight," gurgled Lady Drummond Hay through her typewriter. Next were the Akron hills with the Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible hangar mounting tremendously toward completion. No trouble was there getting to Manhattan and Lakehurst, and much joy. First to alight was Lieut. Richardson, who jumped to hug his wife and child. Other passengers rushed variously for bath and bed. Said Playboy Leeds: "I never saw the world, but only four...