Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soared two police planes to scout up the Sound, down the New Jersey coast for Popeye and its companion craft. To work straight 24-hr. shifts on the case until it was solved, 25 of the youngest detectives on the force were selected, because their faces would be less familiar to criminals. On the supposition that the hold-up men had left New York, Department of Justice agents were ready to begin working on the case under a new law which makes interstate transportation of stolen goods, worth more than $5,000, a Federal felony...
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) first arrives in the presence of Julius Caesar (Warren William) rolled up in a Persian rug. Later she puts on her familiar transparent skirt and brassiere, proceeds to seduce her conqueror in short order, accompanies him to Rome. When Caesar is assassinated, Cleopatra scuttles back to Egypt...
...Familiar-sounding facts presented once more to its public by Schoolmart and Schoolview last week: 3,000,000 children were denied schooling last winter; 1,000 schools closed; the nation's education budget was pared from two and one-quarter billions to one and three-quarters; one-quarter of the country's 247,000 public schools need modernizing. But pedagogs have taken hope. In 37 States school building has leaped 700%-$34,000,000 in the first quarter of this year as against less than $5,000,000 in the same period in 1933. And from Washington last...
...founder, shrewd, kindly Lucien Thompson Warner, 52, who was last year selected by his colleagues to head the committee which codified corsets, seventh industry to come under the NRA. And busy in their own showrooms chatting with buyers were the proprietors of many another corset company whose name is familiar to U. S. women-Kops, H. & W., I. Newman, Formfit, Gossard. Lily of France. All agreed that corsets this year will have few bones, that 60% will be two-way stretch, and the other 40% will go around the girths of women who are set in their ways. Only cause...
...interest story, the homely philosophical anecdote, the hushed heart throb. Having mastered his technique he proceeded to turn out He Went Away for a While and The Beginning of a Mortal. Now appears The Second House from the Corner, written in the same whimsical, speculative vein, with the same familiar snatches from the cracker barrel of homespun philosophy. Some of the fragments are pretty stale and moldy. Author Miller writes about himself after the manner of a daily columnist. Now he has built himself a house. He serves up 34 disconnected pieces about the new edifice and the community...