Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first few days of the National Tennis championship at Forest Hills (L. I.), spectators more knowing than those who come later in the week stroll about among the outside courts, comparing notes on familiar players, making a patter of applause that punctuates the cool syncopation of tennis balls bouncing against turf and strings. There was plenty of material for sideline talk last week. Ellsworth Vines Jr., defending his championship, and Henri Cochet, keyed to avenge the beating Vines gave him at Roland Garros stadium, had first-round byes. . . . Bunny Austin, England's No. i player, wearing...
...would not reduce . . . receivership was the only logical step. . . ." Thus trouble came last week to a fancy grocery that had purveyed rich & rare foodstuffs to Manhattan's best tables for 112 years. A. M. & C.'s small, lacquered delivery wagons and well-turned out horses were a familiar sight in pre-War Manhattan. Until Prohibition smart households bought much of their whiskey, gin, ales, wines, liqueurs and cigars from Acker, Merrall & Condit. Its wholesale tobacco business was sold to Faber, Coe & Greggs...
...judges' stand. But any airman could have recognized one calm voice, twangy and slightly stammering, as that of lanky, moose-eared ''Pop'' Cleveland. He is ringmaster, troubleshooter, rules arbiter for Impresario Henderson. Apparently nerveless, he is a genius at soothing down temperamental pilots, settling quarrels, salving wounded vanity. As familiar to race followers as the pylon in front of the grandstand is "Pop's" ungainly figure striding across the field with his colored starting flags tucked under one arm?red for "all clear," white for "go," checkered for "last lap." Usually he has a cigar in the side...
...next national platform is to fight a sham battle because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared for Repeal, he went silent on Prohibition, left primary voters to guess what he favored...
...Gershwin revealed a weakness of structure, a lack of variety. But most of the Stadiumgoers were well content to take Gershwin's agile, rhythmic music on its own terms. They had heard before The Rhapsody in Blue, the sly American in Paris, the workman-like Concerto in F. From familiar Gershwin shows came the overture to "Of Thee I Sing," "Wintergreen for President," and a medley of "Fascinating Rhythm." "Liza," "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm." New to the Stadium were the other two numbers, conducted by Albert Coates: the highbrow Second Rhapsody, in which the metropolis is typified...