Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same revamping process has been applied to district attorneys. In Manhattan, lethargic Lamar Hardy was replaced by John Thomas Cahill, 36, another Corcoran familiar. Prosecutor Cahill is already famed for standing up to impressive John William Davis, the Democrats' 1924 nominee for President, in the Levy & Hahn proceedings. In Chicago, U. S. Attorney Mike Igoe had to be elevated to the district bench to make way for sharpshooting, young (36) William J. Campbell. Like...
...history of Harvard for its Tercentenary, is Harvard's official historian. He is also a Harvard legend himself. Fanatically fond of his university's traditions, he had the old pump restored in Harvard's Yard three years ago, presided solemnly at its dedication. He is a familiar campus figure, is often seen striding stiffly across the Yard in smart riding clothes. His students admire his scholarship, enjoy his classes because he humanizes history by such devices as describing Thomas Morton's Merrymount Maypole as "a roadhouse between Boston and Plymouth at which both Indian and unscrupulous...
...familiar Tibetan figure is the sinister Tzuren or poison-doctor, who practices his art to keep the ins in and the outs out. In modern times, only Dalai Lama who did not die mysteriously before reaching his majority has been Ngawang Lopsang Toupden Gyatso. In 1893, shortly before he took office, he thoughtfully ordered his regent and other advisers thrown into dungeons. As "Buddha of Mercy" he then had a long and prosperous life. If the 14th Reincarnation learns this much about the 13th, he may think it wise to do the same...
Even the few anecdotes about this thoroughly professional little man take on some of their subject's small, neat dignity. Last year, visiting a Chasseurs' encampment on a mountain plateau, he shook hands with familiar oldtimers and then was taken to the picket line to see some of the St. Bernards who do the outfit's liaison work. Gravely the General kneeled down and shook hands with the best of them...
Sweden's greatest song writer was Carl Michael Bellman (1740-95). To Swedes Bellman's ballads are as familiar as Stephen Foster's are in the U. S. Year ago Hendrik Willem van Loon, literary journeyman, heard some, resolved to investigate the "Anacreon of the North," the "Last of the Troubadours." Last year van Loon and Grace Castagnetta, U. S. pianist spent five months in Sweden, acquainting themselves with Bellman's background and with the Swedish language which, in his songs, is almost untranslatably idiomatic. This week they published the result: 20 songs, with piano accompaniment...