Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July days Telegraph Editor John R. Barry bit his pencil for a new headline to put over such repetitious news. By the 25th he gave up and subheaded "TODAY'S ESCAPES" over the Raleigh dispatch. By last week "TODAY'S ESCAPES" had become one of the most familiar standing heads in the Herald-Sim. Under it last week was chronicled the break of 13 prisoners in three consecutive days. Samples...
...familiar with the sea know that when towering waves roll past a ship with their crests above the observer and their troughs yawning below, they are likely to look twice as big as they really are. Consequently mariners and seasoned ocean travelers were last week discussing excitedly the carefully documented measurements of prodigious waves in the Pacific reported by Lieut.-Commander Ross Palmer Whitemarsh in U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings for August...
...Julian de Lussac (Cary Grant) in this picture. "No, but I am reading Anthony Adverse," replies his friend Paul Vernet (Edward Everett Horton). This is a fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should Listen, a cinematic fly spec, full of old gags and useless information. It includes such familiar figures of bedroom farce as a funny valet, a South American business man who correctly suspects his wife of misconduct, a short sighted girl (Nydia Westman) who trips over rugs...
...next ten years the bylines of the Herricks were familiar to the Tribune's 770,000 readers. John, quiet, studious-looking, became a crack member of the paper's Washington bureau, lately covering the Senate. Genevieve ("Geno") developed into one of the ablest women reporters at the Capital. When Mrs. Roosevelt moved into the White House and began holding weekly press conferences, "Geno's" job became that much more important...
When Morgan-Partner Harold Stanley resigned fortnight ago from the board of United Corp.'s potent affiliate, Niagara Hudson Power Corp., it was explained that Niagara Hudson wanted to replace bankers on its directorate with utilitarians and businessmen familiar with the localities in which its subsidiaries operated. Month before another of United's big affiliates, Commonwealth & Southern Corp., accepted the resignation of three bankers for the same reason. Last week the directors of United, a majority of whom are bankers, met in Manhattan and reversed the process. They accepted the resignation of three active utility men on United Corp...