Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bates: "William R. Hearst ... in 1898, almost solely for the private profit of William R. Hearst, succeeded in prodding this country into a wholly unnecessary war. ... It was the first instance of that effective use of newspaper propaganda on a large scale which has become one of the most familiar features of the twentieth century." Mrs. Older: "Hearst was the flaming crusader for the Pearl of the Antilles. He challenged Bourbon tyranny. He determined to drive Spain from this hemisphere. . . . Without Hearst Cuba might still be under the heel of Spain...
...them in the least. They had met, not to talk, but to play billiards for the world's amateur three-cushion championship, being held for the first time in the U. S. The soft, agreeable click of ivory balls was one language with which all eight were thoroughly familiar...
...familiar ghost stalked the corridors of the New York Stock Exchange last week-the question of corporate publicity. Though attacked for years for not showing more gumption in demanding full and frequent reports from listed corporations, the fact remains that, until the New Deal, the Stock Exchange was the only U. S. body, public or private, that consistently and effectively strove to raise the standards of stockholders' statements...
Meanwhile in West Orange, N. J. a woman preparing to address her club on Peace memorized parts of the Lewis essay. Certain phrases had a familiar ring. Looking back through earlier research she came upon an article in the December Peace Di gest by President Frank Kingdon of the University of Newark. She compared the prize-winning essay with the Kingdon arti cle, found them identical. Dr. Kingdon was notified, tried to reach Eddie Cantor before he started his weekly broadcast, failed. He hastened to spill his news to a friend on the staff of the Newark Evening News...
...Europe, soon returned to edit Outdoor Life for its new owners at tiny Mt. Morris, Ill., 100 mi. west of Chicago. There he found time to contract and recover from a nervous breakdown, lay out a private polo field, break his nose in an automobile smash-up and become familiar with many of the nation's literary and social lights, who in turn came to regard kinetic, fun-loving Harry McGuire as something of a character himself...