Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiselers," "Old Guard lookout men," and "Rugged Individualists," were his principal targets of attack on his barnstorming trips out of Washington to sell NRA to the country. He can whip almost any audience into a fine frenzy of exaltation for the President's recovery program and, adopting a familiar Wartime trick, can make it appear downright unpatriotic to block NRA's advance. Yet for a man who lives by invective and abuse of his foes, General Johnson is surprisingly thin- skinned to criticism of himself and his cause...
...crisis" Japan's militarists mean "the big war" (see p. 36). In Ambassador Saito they will have a spokesman who can laugh as meaningfully as President Roosevelt himself. In many of the world's capitals "Saito parties" are familiar to the diplomatic set. There is always plenty of rice wine and champagne, plenty of Scotch whiskey, plenty of noise. A great hostess, Mrs. Saito is a daughter of the Court Physician of Japan's greatest Emperor, the late Meiji...
...month old boy known as Johnny. They watched the youngster critically as he climbed up a steep plank to get a banana, as he dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with his august audience. Johnny has appeared in motion pictures displayed to psychologists in Chicago last autumn (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week's was his first personal appearance before a large audience. Like every smart entertainer...
...great problems to match great possibilities. To begin with, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass had to be telescoped into one script. A cast of Big Names had to be assembled for publicity purposes and yet a Nobody had to play Alice. Artist John Tenniel's familiar characters had to be imitated if not exactly copied. And finally the screen production had to stand comparison with Eva Le Gallienne's excellent stage adaptation for her Civic Repertory Theatre. When Alice in Wonderland was released this week simultaneously in 120 cities throughout the land. Paramount could well...
...course is imbued with an atmosphere of historical skepticism but beneath which lie sound convictions. The all to familiar phrase "Some say this and some say that" is distinguished by its absence. The lecturer attempts to present history in its reality and succeeds admirably. The one blind spot in all this realism is that ideals and ideas are perhaps unduly deprecated to attain...