Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course Dr. Wirt may have thought it up by himself, but there is a fairly familiar odor of Ham and Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
...other groups, so that we shall have the force of widespread concerted public opinion behind our efforts." Immediate plans of the M. P. R. C.: a $2 to $100 per year membership drive to replenish the exhausted Payne Fund; a campaign to end "block booking." To observers familiar with the cinema industry, the M. P. R. C.'s objections to block booking seemed a bad omen. Block booking is the system whereby exhibitors rent pictures in job lots instead of singly. It gives producers an outlet for their unpopular pictures; it gives exhibitors an excuse for exhibiting morally...
...that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet stall."* To most newspaper readers, stories like Clayton Woods's are of lively interest. Nonetheless, it looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when more stories about lottery winners burgeoned in the newspapers. Republican Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown pointed a monitory finger at a Federal statute which makes lottery information unmailable, under penalty of $1,000 fine and two years imprisonment. Press Associations, always quick...
...campus is forbidden by State law. But almost any Illini can tell the stranger where to get a pint of "corn." And the young philosophy and romance which burgeon in a luxurious Student Union, in 124 dormitories, fraternity & sorority houses and in Fords parked amid the cornfields would be familiar as the alphabet...
Tuesday's session unearthed numerous accounts of official pilfering of inmates' bank accounts and insurance policies, activities thoroughly familiar to John Curry's boys, but which are doubly criminal when practiced on helpless invalids. The bombshell burst in Wednesday's meeting when various attendants related to the Committee a series of incidents in the happy round of their daily chores. One inmate was forced to remain in a chair for three days with a set of broken ribs before she was treated. Another woman was struck down by an attendant and is now in Bellevue Hospital. A woman...