Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just then he heard a familiar voice behind him--"No, I sympathize with the boys going to Princeton. I announced Thursday that I wouldn't give my lecture this morning either." It was his own lecturer...
...rifles had been returned at latest dispatches, and Christians were blowing up still more Moslem homes in reprisal for the burning of the airport. The Mohammedan world, familiar with the methods of a Christian whom they called "The Strongman of Bengal" when he was police commissioner of Calcutta, was incensed to learn that Strongman Sir Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem...
...private life of a Swiss Guard, the yearning to communicate with other planets of the Pope's chief radio technician, and the number of bars in the Papal State (four) are all as familiar to Correspondent Morgan as the first names by which he called servants of the Holy Father during 18 years in Rome representing Associated Press, then United Press (TIME, Nov. n, 1935). He tells why voyaging midshipmen from the U. S. Naval Academy, when in Rome, invariably salute His Holiness with "nine 'NAVYS' and three 'HOLY FATHER...
...series of secret passageways. He emerges from these to confront an antique statue, glitteringly gilded; the statue falls, bursts open, revealing a cache of medieval manuscripts. At last, from an atmosphere grown dreamlike in its portentous illogicality, he walks out into the moonlit garden, sees a dark half-familiar figure passing across the lawn-God. The meeting is surprisingly casual, perhaps one of the least apocalyptic of such encounters in literature...
House waitresses will no longer wear their familiar hat band headgear but will substitute hairnets, according to an order, which took effect last night, coming from the office of Roy L. Westcott, Manager of the University Dining Halls...