Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bonaparte then went on to cite the case of Baltimore with which he is personally familiar and where he has fought bossdom. "Praetorianism" is the system that served to continue bossdom in Baltimore, said Mr. Bonaparte, and the government there existing was distinctly oligarchical. Now, the oligarchy there has fallen, but the success of bossdom in New York warns us of danger. The great parties themselves are corrupt. Men do not get offices as rewards of merit. The remedy is right before us. The nation has made the civil service a breathing place for parasites. Restore this service...
...Pictures' Xmas" is a fanciful sketch of a Christmas eve celebration in Memorial Hall in which John Harvard's statue and the familiar portraits and busts come to life and discuss old times and contemporary college affairs...
That the '98 officers are preeminently the choice of the class is then apparent. To any one familiar with their individual records the wisdom of the choice is no less evident. Every man on the list has earned his place by the reputation which he has won for himself, and by the services he has rendered Harvard University...
This author (whose real name is Miss Murfree) has again come before the public after a silence of several years, and again writes of that region which she has already made familiar to the reading public-the Tennessee mountains...
Aside from the scholarly attainment necessary for the production of any French classic, the purely mechanical difficulties of providing a suitable stage setting in Sanders Theatre have been so successfully overcome that those who are not familiar with the details of the work would be apt to underestimate the achievement...