Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cartoonist Dahl of the Boston Herald drew innumerable cartoons, and Felix Adler famous circus clown left his familiar role for the evening to tell the class of 1941 a few jokes...
Among the familiar evidences of European foreboding, this quiet emigration of paintings to Philadelphia ranks as a minor but interesting portent. Both loans were arranged by the Pennsylvania Museum's young, socialite Assistant Curator Henry Plumer Mcllhenny. Young Mr. McIlhenny was tipped off to the nervousness of young M. Gangnat last summer...
...respect, admiration and attachment of those who knew him, free from the harsh necessity of toiling for his daily bread, he could pursue the scholarly interests that were dear to him and gratify the refinement of his taste. A lover and seeker of the rarest books, and familiar with them in their minutest details he had gathered together in a brief space of time a collection of choice volumes that has but few equals in the whole world...
...Finally produced a full-fledged program intended to defeat Depression. As Franklin Roosevelt explained it to Congress in a special message and to the nation in a "fireside chat." it boiled down to the familiar New Deal story of "pump-priming...
...Wyman, familiar timer at Harvard meets, awarded his trophy, for the man scoring the most points in dual meet competition, for the third year in a row to Hutter. Hutter retaliated, in behalf of the team, with a new gabardine sport coat for Ulen, who has amazed swimming fans for years by appearing in his "lucky" coat for every meet...