Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailor becomes a prosperous gentleman but when he learns that the girl interested herself in him to win a bet. his wrath is great and he flays her and her rich friends for a pack of rotters. A nasty accident and a reconciliation follow. Cut to fit a familiar, frivolous and unpleasant pattern. Let's Talk It Over is not much to talk over...
Such devotional exercises, interspersed with a rollicking theme hymn called "Happy Am I," have become familiar to many a U. S. radio listener during the past year. Broadcast from Washington over the CBS network every Saturday night, the Church of God of Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux is a lively Negro romp, noisy and syncopated as some white folks believe all black worship should be. Last week for the first time Elder Michaux took his choir of 40 and his jazz orchestra of ten out of Washington to capitalize their fame. For his first appearance he chose stolid Philadelphia...
...Government was not prepared to say Trader Cutten's activities had depressed the market, still when Trader Cutten had gone short 7,000,000 bu. in June 1930, wheat dropped from $1.03 to 92? per bu.; 3) Trader Cutten operated 34 accounts in eight brokerage houses through the familiar device of numbers and symbols such as "No. 7," "Mrs. No. 7" (his wife). "E. M. L." (his sister), "R. J. C." (his brother). On the transactions in these dummy accounts, charged the Government, he had on 319 days given inadequate reports...
...Author. Born at Clifton, Tenn. 53 years ago, Thomas Sigismund Stribling has never wandered far from his spiritual home. Tall, baldish, professorial-looking, with a prognathous but benevolent jaw, he started out to be a schoolteacher, failed as a disciplinarian. Though he looks like a bachelor he is married. Familiar with hackwriting, he served a long apprenticeship turning out Sunday School stories, detectification, melodrama. When he wrote Teeftallow (1926), a story of his Tennessee hill country, critics first began to notice him. Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over...
...Francqui was familiar with the White House and its portals. Sent to the Congo as a youth he helped secure for Belgium the vast territory that now holds her famed copper mines. A born empire builder. Emile Francqui was soon serving his country elsewhere. In China where he went as economic adviser to the Government he met a young U. S. engineer named Herbert Hoover. Some years later, during the World War, he was Herbert Hoover's chief coadjutor in distributing Belgian relief. After the War his contacts with the U. S. multiplied. He was a member...