Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This attitude is largely responsible for the familiar restlessness of many American athletes before the season is half-finished But the tradition has grown up that one must abide by these rules, thus in general they are followed; and the athlete finds himself, much to his delight, in the best of health and quite ready to produce his best when the time comes. In contrast the Englishman, instead of suddenly finding himself in condition is much more conscious of how it all comes about, because instead of having rules made for him, it is essential that he make...
Mike Denihan, always known as just "Mike," has died after a colorful career of 35 years as guardian of Harvard athletics. The traditions have grown around his familiar figure at Soldiers Field since the days of the late Percy Haughton. His official duties were to keep unauthorized persons from witnessing the secret practices of the varsity football team. Mike had a failed banner given to him in 1908 by Percy Haughton. Waving this flag before him he lead the snake dances and football rallies in the old days. At other times he would don a tail silk hat, and with...
...Mannering marries a girl of his own class while Mary is in prison. She gets out in time to save his life again, this time by shooting her old friend Leo. A jury finds her guilty of murder and Lawyer Mannering has to intercede to save her life. A familiar melodrama done in an expensive and sometimes ingenious manner, Midnight Mary is distinguished by the work of Interior Decorator Hobe Erwin and by another competent performance by Franchot Tone. When Franchot Tone emigrated from the Manhattan stage last autumn, his work in plays like Green Grow the Lilacs, The House...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, looking like a college boy in his white flannel pants, made the opening concert a memorial to Brahms and Wagner.* He flicked his baton in militant, routine fashion but most of the orchestramen needed no leading. They could have played the familiar music with their eyes shut. And the 12,000 listeners, few of whom think of paying winter concert prices, were completely satisfied. Stadium concerts had started in the traditional way-even to the lengthy, almost inaudible speech of stooped, old Adolph Lewisohn who built the Stadium, makes up the deficits, officiates...
...would have found things just about as they left them, respectively in 1912 and 1924. In fact, things were much as they had been since 1905. There were the "Topics of the Day" and the "Foreign Comment," with editorial v. editorial, cartoon v. cartoon, colorlessly balanced. There were the familiar sentences of transition: "It seems to the Tribune that two effects will be observed: . . ." "Says H. H. Bennett, writing in the New York Times: ..." "As the Auckland (N. Z.) Weekly News tells us: . . ." There were the "Current Poetry" column, and "The Spice of Life" page of jokes. That...