Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, June 1. . . . Rainbow Room incident. I was seated at dais, talking to lady. Wedemar came to table and saluted me with, "Hello, you yellow ." Familiar with crude Wedemar humor, I attempted to pass off remark with ''Hello, Lou!" He repeated salutation and I stood up, drew him aside and said, "Lou, do you mean that, or are you kidding?" He assured me, with another offensive remark, that he meant it. I led him outside, asked for apology, received none, and struck. There was one blow, no word of either Hauptmann case or next day's election...
Euclid Avenue was filled with old familiar faces, some of whom Cleveland had not seen since 1924 when her new Public Hall needed no WPA renovation and Calvin Coolidge was nominated. C. Bascom Slemp from Virginia, David A. Reed from Pennsylvania, Ralph E. Williams from Oregon, Walter F. Brown from nearby Toledo, Jim Watson over the border from Indiana, Charles G. Dawes from Chicago, came trooping in. So did the Elephant's ladies, Alice Longworth from Cincinnati, Ruth Hanna [McCormick] Simms, now from New Mexico, Ruth Baker Pratt from New York. Crowds seethed in hotel lobbies. Fat men sweated...
...educate myself all over again. My brave little wife essayed to teach me, and she would press my finger down on the typewriter keys, and spell the word 'cat.' I could not mentally visualize what a cat was, though the name was familiar. I began to lose the confusing diplopia. ... As I saw other signs of improvement in my co-ordinate movements, I began to have hope. In about 16 months after the onset, mental confusion had almost disappeared as had dizziness; coordination of the arm and hand are about normal, although my writing is yet a little...
...play "Handies" a person attempts by manual manipulation to portray a familiar phrase, title, personage or situation. The more extravagantly far-fetched the conception, the better the "Handy." Observers are not expected to be able to identify the improvisation but to be ready to return an even more fantastic...
...shown at the Fogg. The head is the work of the conservative, elegant wing of late Renaissance sculpture which at first sight appears to be a copy of some portrait of Marcus Aurelius with its finely shaped head, its mass of close curls and prominent brooding eyes, all familiar from his equestrian statue as emperor and his marble bust...