Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smahl began to keep a record of his telephone calls. The first month, he counted 45. His bill charged him for 67, one more than his flat-rate allowance. Dr. Smahl complained. The telephone company at first cut his rate for extra calls in half. As officials became more familiar with Dr. Smahl's triangular face, beady eyes and beak nose, they grew less sympathetic...
Helen Kane grew fatter. Her infantilism grew less appropriate and profitable. Betty Boop remained babyish, alert, and so prosperous that her name has lately become almost as familiar in Manhattan courtrooms as that of Ella Wendel. Last month, Producer Max Fleischer whose firm makes Betty Boop cartoons, distributes them through Paramount, successfully sued a doll manufacturer for imitating Betty Boop. Last week it was Producer Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corp. who were sued by Helen Kane for $250,000 for copying her voice and mannerisms...
...circus is here again. With Mme. Costello's record run forgotten, along come the Millen boys with a brand new show. The machinery of American justice is dusted off, set up and bolted together, and set to running with its familiar squeaks and rattles. The man from Mars reading our papers will judge, rightly, that the most popularly important aspect of an affair of wholesale murder and robbery is the fact that pretty Norma bumped her knee on a cell door...
...graduate and a divorcée. From 1914 to 1917 she was Dr. Wirt's assistant when he was reorganizing New York City's schools. Now she is a school building expert in the Office of Education. The other two women conform, like Miss Barrows, to a familiar Washington type: bright, obscure incumbents of small Government jobs, unmarried, unbeauteous as a rule, and with fairly elemental ideas about politics. Mary Taylor is editor of the AAA's Consumers' Guide. Hildegarde Kneeland has served for ten years as a minor official in the Home Economics Bureau...
...Last week she was described as returning from a career in Hollywood because, after the 1932 Olympics, she accepted a cinema contract that led to a crumb part in one picture and to marriage with Crooner Jarrett. Most of the other names and faces at Chicago last week were familiar-Anne Govednik of Chisolm, Minn., muscular and bright-eyed, who held the U. S. outdoor record for the 100-yd. breast stroke; Dorothy Poynton. a platinum blonde from Los Angeles with a wide, toothy smile and a penchant for fancy bathing suits; tiny Katharine ("Minnow") Rawls, the boyish freckle-face...