Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of art right in their midst. Newshawks shouldered their cameras and hurried out to the Glencoe home of James M. R. Glaser of Rosenbaum Bros, (grain brokers).* In his private bar was a large mural panel entitled The History of Bootlegging. In vaguely Riveraesque manner it showed the familiar figure of Al Capone with a blowsy blonde on the arm of his chair, five scowling henchmen, machine gunners, trucks, planes, motor boats, and the silhouetted figures of couples dancing in a speakeasy (see cut). It had been painted during the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. So proud...
...discomforts of all-night bus travel, amply publicized in 1934's prize cinema, It Happened One Night, are familiar to most U. S. citizens. But few Easterners know that, since 1929, Pacific Greyhound Lines has operated a sleeper-bus service up the West Coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This week Pacific Greyhound will give midlanders a taste of high-way sleeping when it opens "nitecoach" service from Los Angeles to Kansas City -first daily cross-country sleeper...
...permits pilots of the planes in which he hops around the country to call him "Doc." But business intimates must use nothing more familiar than "Hoffman." Until a few years ago he never permitted Mrs. Hoffman, his five daughters and a son (who died last January) to call him anything except "Father." Lately he endures "Papa" from the grown "women, especially when they say, "Papa, here's a present for you." His six grandchildren dare to call him "Grandpa" and pull his beard...
...conscious of "the transparency of being, the characteristic recurrence of the prototype." This is the theme, unpopular in an individualistic day, which opens up like a never-ending vista from Author Mann's pages. As a mere tour de force, in revivifying the fossilized record of a universally familiar legend. Young Joseph would be a masterpiece, but it is far more than a clever conjuring trick. In this installment, which covers only a few years of Joseph's life, leaves him. at the point where he is sold to the Ishmaelites and carried to Egypt, Author Mann...
That such meetings rarely make exciting news is the publishers' own fault. They carry on their liveliest business behind closed doors, indulge in "off the record" discussions which newspapers obediently refrain from reporting. For public consumption they hand out reports and speeches viewing with alarm familiar bogeys, congratulating themselves on "vigilance," calling for cooperation, closer understanding...