Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was the opening of the new $700,000 building of the Worcester Art Museum, designed by William T. Aldrich of Boston. Its exterior is in the familiar Institutional Renaissance, but the interior, adapted largely from the new Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, is one of the most efficient museum buildings in the country. As in the Fogg, galleries stem from a central Palladian arcaded courtyard...
...Familiar to U. S. aviation enthusiasts is the collection of aerial warfare photographs exhibited the past three years by a Mrs. Gladys Cockburn-Lange, reputedly the remarried widow of a British Royal Flying Corps officer shot down in France. The pictures, some 60 in all, are amazing views of British and German planes in close combat. A few show such spectacular views as two planes colliding in midair; a German pilot falling from his flaming plane; most extraordinary of all, a British plane losing its wings as its pilot looped in exuberance over a victory...
...discerning citizen would not be satisfied with any of these specialists as Man of the Year. Looking to Washington he would see old familiar figures passing below the political horizon-figures for whom 1932 meant defeat and exile. After four years of relentless effort unequaled by any man in the White House, Herbert Hoover remained a psychological product of 1928. Millions of citizens hoped that by some last-minute miracle he would turn out to be Man of the Year but more millions felt-and voted-otherwise...
...Herr Professor who wrote the music for last week's operetta and stood in the pit to conduct it was just as familiar to the Viennese audience as the romantic Viennese story. He was Violinist Fritz Kreisler, born and brought up in Vienna, son of a Viennese doctor, soldier in a Viennese regiment, sole support in dark post-War days of many a Viennese orphan. For Sissy, his second operetta since the War, Kreisler wrote charming, familiar music. He used themes from his "Caprice Viennois" and from "Liebes-freud," violin pieces so fluent and lilting that longest-faced critics...
...subject that catches his briskly roving eye. Always refreshing (if you like enthusiasm per se), often more humorous than he intends, he apologizes for this collection of outbursts by saying that in an old world one must still amuse oneself like a child. Every Englishman is familiar with cartoons of Winston Churchill picturing his bulging forehead crowned by a tiny hat. He explains that this is a cartoonist's invention, necessitated by the fact that he has no "distinctive mark," based on a single instance when he had to borrow a hat that was too small...