Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines by broaching' an argument which, if sit-down-strikes reach the proportions of a national crisis may become one of the big guns behind the drive for revising the Court...
...place of the full-page photographs of familiar University scenes that have been included in the Album for many years, Neil G. Melone '37, Chairman of the Album Board, announced yesterday that this year's book, to be published May 15, will feature etchings and pencil sketches of the buildings and views about the college...
...many times before, President Lie won one of the 15 prizes himself: $400 for a Maine landscape entitled Rock Bound Coast. Rockwell Kent won another prize for one of his familiar marine views, Reginald Marsh won a third for an equally familiar Bowery crowd before a sideshow...
...wailing women who at one point rival 'the witches of "Macbeth' in their catalogue of the disgusting; paeans of religious fervor including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious of all, an apology spoken by the murderers in the present-day language of a prosaic politician. The familiar casuistry of this episode is really much better suited for dramatic purposes than many of the pretentious poetic flights that adorn the work, and really have to be read to be grasped...
...Frances Winwar's newest novel, "Gallows Hill", lovers of American history and died-in-the-wool New Englanders will find a new angle of approach to the bloody tradition of the Salem witchcraft persecutions. Aside from the fact that the subject is a familiar one to most of us, the novel is a gripping story displaying in all its emotional actuality the horrors of those ignorant days. The author's faithful adherence to facts which could have been accumulated only by extensive research into the Archives of Salem and Boston brings to the reading public much that is actually biographical...