Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they may have taken as many as three courses in science in preparatory school, are forced to take still another such course in college. In requiring these men to fulfill the science requirement, the College is helping to defeat the proper ends of the distribution system. Students already thoroughly familiar with the scientific method are frequently prevented by the requirement from including in their program a course in an equally valuable subject such as Fine Arts, Economics, or Psychology, not embraced in the concentration-distribution scheme...
...offer for Reigh Count, his Kentucky Derby winner, remarking: "I think any fellow who would pay a million for a horse ought to have his head examined, and the fellow who turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." But his thick, sinewy figure continued to be a familiar sight wherever Chicago deals were done. In 1931 Kuhn, Loeb & Co. called him in to help with their ailing Paramount Publix Corp. As chairman of the finance committee, he ruthlessly lopped $39,000,000 (including $6,000,000 of salaries) from Paramount's budget. Last year when he resigned that...
Those who like to sing, dance, and see pictures at the Metropolitan Theatre are offered this week Will Rogers in "Mr. Skitch," and the opera singer Mary McCormic in a group of more or less familiar selections. This, of course, is in addition to the usual musical gymnastics of Mr. Fabien Sevitzky and an assorted stage show...
...able to sing like the crooners. The reason is a crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half his natural voice. That's a great saving. I don't like to work." Convention City (First National) is a glib, disorganized batch of footnotes on a familiar aspect of U. S. business. It deals with the Atlantic City convention of the Honeywell Rubber Co. President J. B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws...
PROMETHEANS-Burton Rascoe-Putnam ($2.75). Burton Rascoe is a journalist in search of literature. An epitome of restless 20th Century curiosity and enthusiasm, he has been a familiar U. S. literary figure for over ten years, has written masses of literary chatter but only three books. Prometheans is his fourth. Ever since he left Chicago (in 1920) he has been tinkering away at a novel which Author Branch Cabell calls "the most famous American novel never yet published." But Rascoe has been too busy nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans...