Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tone of the cinema industry. Last month, his name popped into Variety for the first time when he requested President Roosevelt to include in the cinema code a provision against "block-booking," whereby producers require exhibitors to take pictures by groups instead of singly. Block-booking is the most familiar alibi of exhibitors who show morally deleterious films. Their real reason for disliking block-booking is that it compels them to take pictures on which they cannot make money. In the squabbles that preceded the signing of the code, Dr. Lowell and his allies among the exhibitors were unsuccessful...
...conservative Manhattan law fir in of Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed-shirt, he leans toward the liberal side on economic questions, is familiar with (and discourses ably on) a wide range of modern economic thought. Last week accompanied by Mrs. Bailie (a professional landscape architect, daughter of Lawyer Henderson) their three children and French poodle, Jasper, he arranged to move from his duplex apartment on Park Avenue to a house in Washington. ("Now," said...
...plan to bridge the river at this point because I think the bridge itself to be a benefit to the public. The proposed shift of the river bed, involving the removal of such a large amount of earth at such great expense, and spoiling the present beautiful and familiar curve, is, in my opinion, a great waste of money for the questionable advantage of allowing faster driving along the straightened parkway...
...safest place for the American dollar is at home. Just what should be the form or kind of investment made is another thing, but any experimenting with foreign exchange holds risks for those who are not familiar with such transactions. It is not believed that the banks are encouraging a flight of capital. They are presumed to be withholding any advice that leads to an export of money...
...horse show since. So has his assistant, lean, wrinkled Eddie Bauchard who trotted round the galleries in 1883 telling the gentlemen that smoking was forbidden. Nowadays he goes the circuit from Florida to Toronto, from horse show to horse show calling horses into the ring. Eddie Bauchard is as familiar to horsemen as Announcer Joe Humphries is to prizefighters. Impressive Reginald W. Rives, treasurer of the Association and amateur coachman, is another famed oldtimer. Treasurer Rives has spent much of his life looking and acting like a character in one of the sportin' novels of Robert Smith Surtees...