Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockholm's Royal Palace last week, 13 men stood before old King Gustaf V and took their oaths of office. They were the Cabinet Ministers who formed Sweden's new coalition Government. Among them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had also headed the outgoing Cabinet. But there were some missing faces, and conspicuous among these was that of disillusioned Rickard J. Sandier, who had served as Foreign Minister the past seven years. He was going back to his old job as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics and his absence...
...Familiar to many a U. S. newspaper reader is the late Heywood Broun's annual Christmas fable (see p. 35). New York commuters know well the editorial, "Is There A Santa Claus?," which the New York Sun has run at Christmas for 42 years (see p. 47). This week, the Chicago Daily News prints a cartoon (first published in 1934) which is on its way to like renown (see cut). The cartoonist: Vaughn Richard Shoemaker,* Chicago political satirist (famed for his mousy little character, "John Q. Public") and an ardent Christian...
...quite important that the arranger be thoroughly familiar with individual talent in the band in order to obtain aforementioned results. For example an arrangement for Cab Calloway might be of little value to Lombardo and vice versa...
...overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove him, Lincoln allowed him to build a great army; by later reappoint-ing him, again against great pressure, he restored to the army the one favorite and familiar commander under whom it had the spirit to beat off Lee at Antietam...
...ordinary novel, dealing entirely with White House routine, and lose little by it. The look and sound and layout of Washington, the character of battles, the diversity of talk and action over the country emerge as clearly as the central presence of Lincoln, revealed in touches both familiar and unfamiliar (e.g., Emerson's noting that he "showed all his white teeth" when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North and South, Sandburg gives the fruit of original research. Nothing in the narrative, however, stands out with such power for readers in 1939 as the deep tenacity...