Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smiling at him. Not seductively, but with a fresh, frank, open face. He could smell her soft fragrance--a new-old perfume, a spoor which had not tickled his nostrils for many long moons. Yet it was hauntingly familiar, a scent from the past, an aroma of other years. The Vagabond growled to cover his interest...
Kolbe, Barlach, Lehmbruck are names as familiar to exhibition-goers as Maillol or Rodin. Lehmbruck, that strange, intense artist who committed suicide in 1919, is the creator of monumental figures, some calm and passive, others struggling against a malignant fate. Lehmbruck is essentially a worker in clay, a modeler, but with a rare sense of plastic form...
...business recession. But other explanations have been suggested: 1) the topheavy ratio of bad motion pictures to good ones, perhaps due to the demands of the double-feature market; 2) the obviously bad business move of building up cinema personalities and then letting the radio make them too familiar; 3) the lure of bingo and other catchpenny diversions of the nation's entertainment dollar...
...doubt you have heard of me and my great work in the cause of temperance. For several years I have been travelling about the country on the lecture platform. You may even be familiar with some of my better known talks, such as "Down With Drink," "Rum and Rebellion," and "Taking the B Out of Booze...
...Claude Houghton-Macmillan ($2.50). Story of a happily married Englishman who drifts into a love affair with the daughter of an old friend, keeps the relationship on a high-minded plane, and returns in time to save his son's life. A thin but convincing account of a familiar triangle, a thinner and unconvincing account of emotional difficulties solved semi-mystically...