Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anecdote with a moral was told in Vatican City last week to illustrate the familiar saying that "Pope Pius has never told...
...Chicago, a Mrs. Victoria Tultric awaited her husband's homecoming, impatiently. A loud and familiar-sounding rap rattled the front door. Mrs. Tultric, impatient, fired a bullet through the door. The man she shot was not errant Mr. Tultric, but Truant Officer Thomas McCarthy calling on duty...
...Familiar is the figure of the executive who has worked up from office boy or shipping clerk, whose leadership of a company has resulted from long familiarity with all its twists and turns. Less familiar, but recently much in vogue, is what might be termed the Professional Executive. His distinguishing characteristic is the fact that he becomes president of a company not because of what he knows about the company but because of what he knows about being a president. He is in the business of running things, and what he runs is a subordinate factor in the situation. Thus...
During the last few years bank failures have become common, the number mounting into the hundreds in Minnesota alone. I am familiar with homes where after a lifetime of hard work, people are forced to live on the small allowance available from the poor fund. I know mothers who are supporting several children on a sum of $15 or $20 a month from the same fund. I know how they are housed and clothed and what rents they pay, but imagination balks when confronted with how they keep warm and what they...
...Otto) Soglow. One was a black and white study of a city street at nightfall. The casual silhouettes were expressive of simple, mundane destinies. Paris was an oil painting of a lugubrious couple and a stein of beer. The malty futility of a sidewalk cafe existence is a familiar subject, but Satirist Soglow had handled it with distinction...