Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar attitude of somnolence old James McReynolds heard Justice Roberts announce the Court's decision, seven-to-one for freedom of the press. Scribbling swiftly, newsmen shoved into the pressroom tubes the line: "Justice McReynolds dissents," turned back to stare at the lonely old man nodding in his huge black chair...
Chopin: Waltzes (Edward Kilenyi; Columbia: 10 sides). Pianist Kilenyi makes all 14 of Chopin's familiar waltzes glitter like cut steel...
Unlike Germans, Britons may listen to any foreign broadcast they can tune in. To reach British ears with the Nazi side of World War II, Germany broadcasts in English, sometimes as much as eight hours a day. Most familiar voice from Germany, to most British listeners, speaks daily from Zeesen in exaggerated pip-pip English, caning British high-ups and war policies; deploring the blockade with: "Rehly, you British, it isn't manlah!" Some listeners think this hyper-Oxonian voice is Traitor Norman Baillie-Stewart's, some think it is Dr. Helmut Hoffman's, who once lectured...
...Freshman classes at Harvard never seem to change much," asserted Benjamin Laurie, familiar to Union billiard sharks as plain Ben, on his twentieth anniversary at the Union. "And I wish to say that they're the finest bunch of fellows a man can work with," he added...
America is usually wide awake and tuned in 12,000,000-strong Tuesday nights when Announcer Milton Cross trumpets this familiar radio reveille. For Information Please, the quiz program that plays experts for fall guys, has been capital, dependable, adult radio fun for a year and a half, since last November courtesy of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. Its fast-cracking experts