Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiar gold-and-black "A. Schulte" cigar-store signs on 186 busy streetcorners in the East and Midwest will be coming down soon. Up in their places will go flashy new signs reading: "D. A. Schulte, Inc., Fashion Haberdashery for Men & Women.'' Instead of cigar stores that dabbled in men's ties, shirts and socks, this week Schulte's was turning itself into clothing stores that dabbled in tobacco...
Equally disenchanting are the narration and songs by Bing Crosby, who without ever putting in a personal appearance manages to impose his familiar personality on large chunks of the film like the second take of a double exposure...
Testing Haul. This book, the second of a projected panel of four about the West, takes up where The Big Sky left off. Basically it is the familiar story of a wagon train moving west from Missouri to Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will be quick to appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted...
Rising proudly on a ten-acre plot on Soldiers Field Road stands WBZ's new three-million dollar radio and television center, and next to it the familiar 649-ft. transmission tower, the tallest structure in New England. Inside, an all-modern building houses the offices and studios of WBZ, WBZ-FM, WBZ-TV, and short-wave WBOS; the station realized two years ago that they were all too big to squeeze inside the old Hotel Bradford headquarters. Outside, next to the building, the high tower lights up the night sky and sends the station's FM and TV signal...
This week, in a bedside manner familiar to many an ailing big business, Expert Bernays was ready to tell the patient all. "If the rate of decline continues," he warned at the outset, "in a decade or two we may expect to see the legitimate theater in New York disappear completely . . . [But] in spite of everything, the American people like the theater more than ever before, if it meets their desires and needs...