Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reviewing Peck's Bad Boy, current cinema, TIME correctly describes Cousin Horace (Jackie Searl) as "a juvenile sneak & pedant" (TIME, Oct. 15). Cousin Horace, arriving at the Peck household, is carrying a magazine. At several moments a familiar cover is plainly visible. TIME! A symbol of pedantry, no doubt...
Speech followed dull speech. The Congress adopted a platform consisting of all the familiar things that the men who go to such congresses favor: a balanced budget, the gold standard, a modified NRA, an end to government competition with business. But genuine economic articulation came not from the practicing-economists who were delegates to the Congress but from the practicing politicians of the New Deal?Daniel Roper, Raymond Moley; Donald Richberg...
...With his familiar eye-rolling and handclapping, Eddie Cantor prances through a dull, uninspired musical comedy extravaganza "Kid Millions" at Loew's Orpheum this week. The picture follows approximately the same comedy lines as did its predecessors, Eddie Cantor plays the same type of part and sings the same manner of songs, and as before myriads of luscious girls are whisked past the camera's lens in baffling geometric designs. If you liked these elements before you will probably like them again. As an extra special treat the final sequence is produced in gay Technicolor and handled as well...
These are all familiar facts and it is well that they should be understood by the sons of Harvard. They are entirely compatible with the inscription on John Harvard's statue. There is no myth to be destroyed. Jerome D. Groene '96. Director of the Harvard Tercentenary Celebration...
...have been compelled by force of circumstances to make an about face and to recommend now the selection of a type of head football coach such as Fritz Crisler at Princeton. If Lou Little is available for head coach at Harvard I strongly urge his appointment. I am familiar with his work at Georgetown, where he developed some really great teams. His record at Columbia speaks for itself. Harvard needs an experienced and successful coach. If we cannot win some of our major games with graduate coaches, we had better follow the example of Princeton, Columbia. Holy Cross, Southern California...