Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waters off Eastport. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished, a salute gun barked 21 times and the seagoing President went rolling into the unknown as far as the nation was concerned for three days. No newshawks were aboard to report the hourly doings of Mr. Roosevelt, nor of his familiar Louis McHenry Howe, nor of Henry Morgenthau of the Farm Credit Administration, nor of Franklin Jr. and a lucky Groton friend. Not even the Navy Department knew the position of the Indianapolis from day to day. The cruiser ploughed swiftly toward Annapolis, drawing to a close the 15-day Presidential vacation which...
...navy second to none . . . "To develop the Navy to a maximum in battle strength . . . "To organize the Navy so that expansion only will be necessary in the event of war . . . "To make foreign cruises to cultivate friendly international relations . . . ''To encourage the art of naval warfare." Familiar to all naval officers were such fighting phrases in Policy Sheets. They meant much or nothing depending upon administration. But new and different were Secretary Swanson's pledges: "To build and maintain a fleet of all classes of fighting ships of the maximum war efficiency and replace overage ships." (That...
...Yorkers who frequent expensive speakeasies, Dwight Fiske has long been a familiar personality. Lean, hatchet-faced, with hands like carefully manicured claws and a bald-spot on his narrow skull, they have seen him hunched scornfully in front of a grand piano, intoning his unique compositions with an air at once chipper, elegant and insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom...
...Humphries, 63, who grew up in a family of 23 brothers and sisters. A onetime newsboy, his 45 years of bellowing announcements at boxing & wrestling matches, bicycle races, golf tournaments, track meets, rodeos and regattas have made him Stentor of U. S. Sport and his amiable, snaggle-toothed face familiar to millions of sport-goers...
Young though it is among the arts, sciences and sports, aviation already has its own vocabulary, traditions, legends and songs. Pilots' slang and customs are fairly familiar to fiction readers and cinemaddicts. But songs of flying, unlike cowboys' and sailors' songs, have never been collected in print. In the May-June issue of Sportsman Pilot, out last week, appeared the beginning of an anthology of flying songs. First contributions came from John C. Haddock, Pennsylvania mining engineer and sportsman pilot. Pilot Haddock recalled a chantey by which student aviators in the Navy were taught the rudiments...