Word: familiar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...favor three seasons ago. When the Italian maestro, still hotly anti-Nazi, learned of plans to broadcast Salzburg events to Germany, he seethed & stormed, vowed to depart and never return if any performance under his baton was sent across the border. Last week while Salzburgers were hearing a familiar, first-rate Toscanini performance of Beethoven's Fidelio and a familiar, even better Toscanini version of Die Meistersinger, cafe talk was all of how the grey little conductor had rehearsed the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to a frazzle in an effort to bring it up to the standard...
...life she lived in pre-Revolutionary Russia and pre-War Paris has become familiar to readers of the memoirs of onetime Russian aristocrats. Countess Nostitz was accused of being a spy during the War, witnessed the disintegration of the old order under the sequence of defeats, was almost more hostile to the opposition party within the ranks of the nobility than to the revolutionists...
...Theodore F. Green): "Landon was a question mark when he began to speak. He was an even larger question mark when he finished speaking. ... I am disappointed." The Voice of Pennsylvania (George H. Earle): "We were not impressed by any talk of fumbling with recovery. . . . Governor Landon may be familiar with [the steel industry] since his uncle, William T. Mossman, is the chief lobbyist in Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania steel masters. The Pennsylvania steel industry is booming today as it has never boomed since the World War (see p. 49). Governor Landon, who radiates sweetness, light and love...
...Boom, Boom it went again, each time almost knocking the little cannoneer off his feet. Sixteen rifles in the hands of 16 U. S. Coast Guardsmen and infantry fired a volley of 16 blank cartridges and the 1812 Overture of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky crashed to its close with the familiar progressions of the old Imperial Russian anthem...
...accounts of political exiles from Italy and Germany range from atrocity stories to philosophical discussions of dictatorship, seldom give concrete evidence of how Fascism makes its appearance on the plain streets of some familiar environment. Last week an ironic little volume by a onetime member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller...