Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beep! Beep!" is to U. S. citizens the nearest phonetic approach to the sound of a certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent...
...book, and throughout its pages are scattered exhortations to the reader to disagree if he likes but to do some sort of thinking anyway. But there is little to disagree with in the criticism of the American short story with which the book ends. Mr. O'Brien is on familiar ground here and he succeeds in making a pretty concise exposition of what is wrong with those tales which so innocuously while away so many Thursday nights
...pretty well tattered madonna, a certain amount of interest is attached to her explanations of the origins of her hates and loves. She is described as tall, supple, and of "almost tigerish strength." When we add that she speaks in a husky voice and uses tangerine perfume, any reader familiar with One-a-minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type. Her chief weakness seems to be that she is given to sudden uprushes of emotion around men, either pro or con, and, when they are pro, she generally ends up with a little more patchwork. This failing leads to a purple...
...familiar spa, with its wares of fruit and candy, exists to the number of 10. Of hotels, opticians, telegraph offices, undertakers, and plumbers there are two each. There are five banks, a like number of garages and painters, a theatre, an architect, and 10 printers and engravers...
...growth in numbers with which we are familiar has not been uniform. While the total of students enrolled in the University has been from 1,300 in 1879 to 11,000 in 1929, the total in Harvard College has been from 800 to 3,200. (I use round numbers.) The University has grown eight-fold; the College but four-fold. To put it in another way: in our time Harvard College contained the great majority of the University students; now the other departments contain the great majority...