Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schwartz, whose letter appeared in your issue of June 27. Mr. Schwartz, the contents of TIME guarantees to its publishers the loyal support of its subscribers, program or no program. The high-quality of its program, "March of Time," should draw subscribers from those who have not been familiar with the calibre of magazine it publishes. Laughs are rare these days, but I really laughed when I read that your interest in the program was only because it appealed to your children. I think you are to be congratulated on having children with such discriminating taste. More power to them...
There also appeared in Bangkok last week a Committee of 15 about which nobody seemed to know anything except that "the Cabinet is responsible to it," according to Premier Monophkarana. Foreign correspondents, groping for familiar words in which to state so peculiar a situation, decided that the Committee of 15 is a "junta" or "dictature." His Majesty, long a public advocate of popular suffrage, welcomed rumors that the vote had been given to Siamese women last week, though by whom and for what did not appear. A theory grew that the original 70 Senators who simply took their seats will...
Because Aiken is much favored by Eastern socialites, the school attracted many a notable daughter, fell into the familiar pattern of select schools, emulating notably Virginia's Foxcroft. There are hockey and lacrosse; horses may be brought to Fermata or hired there; able girls go drag hunting. But Fermata is not scholastically distinguished. Possibly it did not care to be; between 1923 and 1927 only three girls took College Board examinations...
...with other Pilgrims, get away to Holland. There they stay for some ten years before they can collect sufficient money, organization and courage to cross the sea. At last, bonded to the speculative Merchant Adventurers, they are furnished transportation. With their embarkation on the Mayflower the story enters more familiar ground. But the actualities of the trip, the landing at Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes an unexpected turn. Hopeless of his brother...
...impresario can jumble onto his stage spear-carriers, dancing girls, supernumeraries by the score. If possible, let there be animals! Could there be camels in Carmen? Elephants in Pelleas et Melisande? Hardly. Of all operatic staples, Aïda does best outdoors. Consequently, Aïda's familiar tunes ring sweetly every summer in many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more than 1,000 performers (including the animals) figured (TIME, Aug. 10). Washington had an Aïda last fortnight, presented by that seasoned...