Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as he appeared on the floor of the House, William Lemke was at one of the high points of his career. Up for final action was the third of the famed bills to bear the familiar trademark of Frazier-Lemke...
...conference itself was conspicuous for its lack of New Deal animosity. A good many sessions were devoted to familiar Chemurgician products like soy beans, tung oil (for paint), Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations...
Taking the express highway familiar to thousands of motorists bound for South Jersey's shore resorts, the Valiant turned down U. S. Route No. 9, preceded by an automobile to clear traffic. The coach tooled along at a fine rate to the leafy little hamlet of Marlboro, site of the second change. At Freehold the party paused for luncheon, just two miles short of the best hamburg stand between Newark and Cape May. Tearing through Toms River, but not fast enough to become enmeshed in the speed traps just south of that place or embroiled with the neighborhood...
...Deeds" has extraordinarily high entertainment value, perhaps because the humor springs from so many diverse sources. There are the familiar escapades of a young man's first bender: Gary, dressed in alcoholic simplicity, feeds doughnuts to appreciative horses. Then there is Gary's irrepressible exuberence; he jumps on hurtling fire engines, and wields his homicidal right whenever he is sufficiently annoyed. There is a travesty on the legal profession, and the lawyers, choice victims ever since Plato's time, take another merry trouncing. There is a mirthful experiment in indoor reverberation and a comical discourse on abnormal psychology, debunking...
...Morristown for a month's course. Mrs. Eustis has found that most of the blind need a "mental housecleaning" before anything else. The eight members of each month's class at "The Seeing Eye," are first "built up" psychologically, encouraged to find their way in familiar surroundings. Then the blind student gets a dog whose harness, equipped with a semirigid, U-shaped handle, is sensitive to the slightest human touch. With an instructor at hand, the student tests his dog in Morristown traffic. When at month's end the student can take his walk without the instructor...