Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promoted, was too ambitious to join, but Micky did. That put a stop to their affair. Mrs. Thayer thought Ramon, with a little polishing, might do for her Marjorie, but as Marjorie. lately seduced by Harry Baumann, shrank from the idea. Mrs. Thayer took him herself. Harry, tired of familiar sensations, joined the strikers; got a brand-new sensation when he went on the picket-line and was beaten up before policemen recognized him. As the months wore on and the strike continued, public opinion went more & more against the strikers. Kicked out of their rented headquarters, they built their...
...first dismiss from this discussion as ridiculous the idea of any student youth movement, striding over this country in brown shirts or purple pants. Let me at the same time make clear the fact that not being too familiar with the reasons which drive students into the radical ranks, I cannot argue their case except to say that I understand why certain of them, as Lincoln Steffens shows us, become agitators in the hope that their efforts will help to break down a system which is fundamentally responsible for all our ills, political, social, and economic...
...betterment may have a clear justification in the eyes of well-meaning Party officials, they bear concomitant risks, not simply of antagonizing the middle-classes (which can hardly be avoided), but of blinding the officials themselves to the stature of these achievements, a blindness which leads inevitably to the familiar pitfall of the "lesser evil" policy. CASTOR...
...President of the U. S.. appeared on the arm of an aide. There was a round of applause. The Rev. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate, raised his hand and began "Our Father, which art in Heaven. . . ." Piously the 3,500 businessmen mumbled the familiar phrases. The prayer over. General Johnson, who had just concluded a four-day wrestle with the critics of NRA (see p. 15), stepped forward to begin his second wrestling bout, this time with the code authorities. But first he introduced President Roosevelt who, before a microphone, delivered a speech designed to crush...
...bellboy in a bawdy house, later traveled from monastery to monastery doing odd jobs for the monks. He learned to read and quote the Bible and he developed an uncanny faculty for working on the sympathies of women. His beard, his matted hair and peasant blouse are familiar to the world, but those who knew him best remember most his pale, dark-circled eyes. Rasputin was definitely hypnotic...