Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jealousy (Columbia). To a familiar subject this picture adds only a few superficial footnotes. A prize-fighter (George Murphy) meditates dubiously the relation between his fiancée (Nancy Carroll) and her employer. After he marries her and goes broke, the doll-faced wife gets a new job from the old employer, whose identity she conceals from her husband. The prize-fighter discovers the two together just after they have been viewing samples of costume jewelry. In a scuffle the employer is killed. The prize-fighter wanders off in a daze while his wife is tried and convicted of murder...
Professor Palmer, last living philosopher of the William James and Royce era in Harvard history, was, for several years before his death, the oldest living Harvard professor, and his stooped figure and hesitating walk were familiar sights in the Yard. He was born on March 19, 1842, in Boston, and after attending Phillips Exeter Academy for two years, entered Harvard in 1860. After his graduation in 1864, he went to the Salem High School as under-master, but was forced to stop teaching after two years and travel for his health...
Male critics cannot be expected to be familiar with the story of "Anne of Green Gables." The movie proves that a person's education has not been seriously injured by this omission. It is the story of a highly imaginative orphan girl, who eventually grows...
...doubtful if the name of Bertrand Russell would ever have become a household word in English-speaking lands had not the blue-blooded Earl and his free-thinking second wife set out some years ago to educate the world in what they considered the ways of sexual happiness. Now familiar to every schoolgirl, their views once more made news last week when Bertrand and Dora Russell turned up in a London divorce court...
...London Economic Conference last year and going to Spain with three boon companions, Journalist Henry Major Tomlinson did not hesitate long. He went to Spain, with a backward skeptical sniff at the Conference's selfimportance. South to Cadiz is the record of his Spanish holiday, written in his familiar brow-wrinkled style, as if he had puffed it thoughtfully out of an old pipe stuffed with a shaggy mixture of Lamb, Stevenson and Conrad. A journalist to littérateurs, a littérateur to journalists, Author Tomlinson is pleasant company for plain readers who like to browse quietly...