Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebration, beginning on Sunday, with six Negro preachers participating in Memorial Services for the Founders, carrying on at 12:05 a. m. that night with a breakfast dance in the Casino Ballroom over Henry Bolton's store, a speech by the eminent Negro Statesman Roscoe Conkling Simmons (familiar to all attendants at Republican National Conventions), and a showing of motion pictures of the fight of the century: Joe Louis beating World Champion James J. Braddock (25? admission). And so on to Friday...
...country is familiar by this time with the parliamentary device of indefinitely continuing the same 'legislative' day by 'recessing' instead of 'adjourning' at the close of each session and the consequent application of the rule that a Senator shall not speak more than twice on the same subject during the same day. But study of precedents at Washington has brought out the fact that in the past the invariable custom of the Senate on the announcement of the death of one of its members has been immediately to adjourn, not recess...
...literary side the book is a straight throwback to Kipling and Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added to this familiar pattern are modern touches of swearing, sex and disillusionment. As a result Deep Soundings plays hob with the tradition which demands that adventure fiction, no matter how tough its heroes, must preserve a cleanliness seldom found elsewhere in life or literature. As an example of the one serious book which every adventure...
...impresario in the miserable position of having to pay 85% of its profits to all its various angels simultaneously. As rewritten by a battery of Hollywood scenarists, this idea is somehow boiled down to the skeleton for a succession of vaudeville turns most of which are as familiar as the players who take part in them. Best sketch, taken from Life Begins at 8:40 (1934): Milton Berle as a stock speculator hysterically caught in the toils of a greedy broker...
...Nearly every mind that might have disputed with Stalin for leadership has been destroyed by execution, exile or imprisonment. If Lenin were to return to life in this Red State that he founded he would see few familiar faces. . . . The happiest people here now are those in middling jobs. It is only obscure people who feel safe. That is true in every field, including the Communist Party ranks. . . . This city's aspect is not different from ordinary times and no more troops than usual are in evidence...