Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar lobbyists returned to speak their time-worn pieces in the farmers' behalf. The proceedings reminded one of an 1890 melodrama, revived and played straight...
...most people pottery is too familiar an accessory to life to have much importance. Tiles, plates, saucers, cups, flower pots, vases are so necessary they are commonplace, manufactured and bought by the million. Normal purchasers exercise a natural regard for what is pleasing in pottery, but to select pottery as the distinctive work of a gifted individual would seem precious to most people...
Back to England, a month ago, sailed a gossipy-garrulous young Britisher named Beverley Nichols. For some time he had been selling his books and lectures of familiar chit-chat about the world's Great and Near-Great, to the fame-hungry US. public. For four months he had edited a monthly smartchart called the American Sketch for Doubleday, Doran & Co. (TIME, Dec. 17). Upon leaving he told people that he was bored with the American Sketch and had decided to go home and pick up more chit-chat to put into more books for more money. Doubleday, Doran...
...Babbittry, Mr. Lewis evidently recognized his grave responsibility to vocabulary, for he wavered and fussed, changed and substituted, before committing himself to "Dodsworth." His difficulty is plain: Dodsworth, no simple ameba, reacts to stimulae of the shifting European scene not automatically but thoughtfully, individually. Dodsworth is a type, recognizable, familiar; but the type is susceptible to variations. Fran's type also is familiar−to those who read Henry James, and dally in cosmopolitan circles. Literati have even traced resemblances to the first Mrs. Lewis, substituted dark for ash-blond hair, substituted this for that and that for this...
...their friends are not in touch with undergraduate social life. Still, if such alarming conditions as the House Plan promises to ameliorate really exist today, they claim the step is by all means desirable. Any plan which promises the intimate contacts of the smaller Harvard with which they were familiar cannot but appear attractive...