Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone familiar with Soviet trials the document offered as Assassin Nicolaev's confession bore earmarks of labored composition by the Gay-pay-oo. It confessed that an unspecified foreign consul† gave Nicolaev 5,000 rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...
Despite this original intention by the Attorney General, his crime conference jogged along the well-trodden path of its predecessors with conferees bobbing up & down to make familiar suggestions. Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation wanted an end to "political pressure" on enforcement agencies. Commissioner H. J. Anslinger of the Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics, whose men over the previous weekend had rounded up 793 dope dealers and addicts, proposed special wards in county sanatoriums to cure criminal and noncriminal drug addicts. Miss Dorothy Frooks of Peekskill, N. Y., denounced...
...product of the conference was a set of eight resolutions. Whether they would be the "sole product" depended largely on Attorney General Cummings and his ability to keep his conference from being forgotten as just another one of those things. Most of the resolutions had an old, familiar ring. They called...
...control in the depression of 1903. He prospected for gold in Death Valley and Alaska. In his old age he turned to painting, scurried around Europe studying old masters. The first transcontinental telephone conversation in 1915 was between Bell in Manhattan and Watson in San Francisco. The words were familiar, epochal: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you!" Bell died in 1922. Last week, in St. Petersburg. Fla., Thomas Augustus Watson's 80-year-old heart stopped dead...
...politics. Southwest Missouri was, and is yet in those parts in which the automobile road has not penetrated, a backwoods country with a characteristic backwoods culture. Turkey shoots, country school hoedowns, hunting (possum, squirrel, quail and other small game) and hay wagon parties were sports with which I was familiar...