Word: acquaintanceships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Martin Mooney is a lean, hardboiled newshawk who likes dice and drink, prides himself on his intimacy with big-shot thugs. He says he first struck up his criminal acquaintanceship while serving 15 jail terms for nonpayment of alimony. Last week he was on his way back to jail, this time as martyr to an oldtime Press tradition...
Probably Dietz' greatest success was in the "Freiburg Passion Play," where he took the part of Pontius Pilate, during its four consecutive season tours in this country. an unusually good acquaintanceship with America is enjoyed by Mr. Dietz. He has played in all forty-eight states, besides appearing in the films and giving performances over the radio...
Dean Murdock expressed the hope that there would be in the future a more adequate center for the graduate students modeled after the House system, but somewhat simpler in nature. President Conant seconded him in this hope, saying, "We hope to have better material means for the furthering of acquaintanceship of the students in the Graduate School...
...strength of his one-man expedition is doubled when he strikes up an acquaintanceship with Perken, a German-Danish adventurer of unsavory reputation who has spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands...
...familiar with the old combinations before he can experiment with new ones, so the neophyte writer must have some acquaintance with what has been written in times past before engaging successfully in a work of originality. The English department very adequately provides opportunity for this detailed and scholarly acquaintanceship with the English classics, but it neglects and falls to foster as much as some students desire opportunities for original work in the field of composition. And indeed creative writing is one of the most important phases of literary research...