Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curb to ask directions. A determined-looking, agile little man, with the alert step of a New England Yankee, was walking by. "Hey, there," called the motorist, "where's the White House? Where's the Capitol?" The little man (Calvin Coolidge) appeared to be familiar with Washington geography and obligingly gave directions. "Thanks," said the motorist, waved his hand and drove...
Leap, the flea, killed Creep, the louse- The monkey that became fastened in a crevice by the tenderest portions of his anatomy, is a more familiar anecdote...
...Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...
Mesdames Flora Mann, Nallie Carson, and Lillian Berger, and Messrs. Norman Stone, Norman Notley, and Cuthbert Kelly comprise the personnel of the company. Among the more familiar numbers which they will sing are "Ispy Celia" and "Now is the month of maying...
...view of the fact that the question of whether or not the Big Three football agreement is a handicap to Yale, Princeton, and Harvard is a widely discussed one at the present, the Crimson has seen fit to publish it again for the benefit of those who are not familiar with it. The complete agreement follows...