Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monument to Richard Wagner. European composers wrote pieces with titles like Vorwärts-A Washington Post, as if this were a special dance like the waltz or polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar deedle-dee-dums of the march. How many millions of copies the Washington Post sold, John Philip Sousa never knew. Like many composers with a good tune, he sold his rights to it early, to a Philadelphia publisher...
...current patron, Jules Stein of the Music Corporation of America, donated an orchestra. Mike himself showed up with $25 in his pocket which he pyramided to $125 at the gaming tables before the party broke up at 6 a. m. Missing from the guest list were a great many familiar Hollywood partygoers, including fat Elsa Maxwell, cafe society's coast-to-coast whoops-a-daisy. Explained the host: "No phonies...
...took his familiar witness' seat in the air-cooled Ways & Means Committee room, Henry Morgenthau had a nine-page statement all ready. In his resonant baritone voice the Gentleman Farmer who is Franklin Roosevelt's chief fiscal agent read off, without specifically recommending anything, the list of questions which Congress might "wish to re-examine...
...early scenes, with their warm, not unhumorous account of a pre-War childhood, and their spanking pace, are fresh and alive. But despite a few touching scenes and a few impassioned ones the play weakens as it proceeds. Jerry never becomes more than a familiar symbol. The plot never slides out of the worn proletarian groove. The stagecraft-combining Living Newspaper technique with class-conscious expressionism-would once have seemed striking, today is dated...
With 400 on its passenger waiting list, Pan American will carry no revenue passengers until next month. One of the provisions of CAA's order was for five flights with mail only, so that Pan Am's crews will be thoroughly familiar with the run before the first passenger run (capacity: 40) is made...