Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew Mr. Hoover doubted that he had written the statement and taken great pleasure in doing so. But few who were familiar with Mr. Hoover's style in public statements doubted that Mr. Allen, recently reported to have resumed his post as Hoover literary mentor, had been responsible for the insertion of the last sarcastic sentence. Never before had Herbert Hoover fathered the best wisecrack of the week on any topic of public interest. Last week's achievement sent him on to his Palo Alto home grinning from...
...weeks ago the Committee took pained notice of a story in the Schwarze Korps, official organ of Adolf Hitler's special guard, warning the Peace Prize Committee "not to provoke the German people by rewarding this traitor to our nation. We hope that the Norwegian Government is sufficiently familiar with the ways of the world to prevent what would be a slap in the face of the German people...
...running reader, even if he is a Harvard man interested, a little more than mildly but not intensely, in the history of a school which annually contributes about one-tenth of the Freshmen Class. Even the Latin School graduate, to whom much that is here will be familiar, will hardly summon up a remembrance of things past from his school-days, which now glow with all the romance natural to retrospection, for the book is learned and scholarly, as indeed it should be to justify its membership as Volume 25 in the Harvard Studies in Education. Yet all readers will...
...Colonel", "Break-it-up", "Hawk-eye" -- all these are familiar epithets applied to Mr. Apted in the Crimson. When the students steal a bell clapper, Mr. Apted is discredited before he starts work on the case. If he apprehends the practical jokers, he is cursed roundly in undergraduate editorials. If he fails to detect the men implicated he is sneered at and reviled...
...fares, the taxi driver said "A quarter, Sir." "Twenty-five cents?" said the gentleman spokesman of the party, glancing at the others of his party grouped hopefully about him, and at the ten pieces of luggage arranged neatly about their feet. "Twenty-five dollars" might have sounded more familiar, but the taxi man stuck bravely to his first answer. So the gentleman handed him 50? and their trip was resumed by train to Williamsburg. The group consisted of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., their daughter and her husband, Mrs. Rockefeller's son Mr. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller...