Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Procter said that he had not been active in politics before, in a national campaign at least, but that he had had some experience, in fact, a lot of experience, in business, and was very familiar with the manner of reaching the people in the homes of the country, but that it took money to do it. He said that in these days it was his idea - to use a commercial expression - to 'sell' the candidate to the people just as if he were an unknown new proprietary article or useful appliance or invention...
...last week; other famed singers tuned their notes-Tita Schipa, tenor from the Chicago Civic Opera; Marguerite d'Alvarez, Spanish contralto; Rosina Torri, from La Scala; Fernand Ansseau, Belgian. Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila. The San Francisco Opera Company had begun its season...
...life, as it is called . . . but we are not interested if this side of college produces only sleek, well-fed bipeds of the genus homo (by courtesy) sapiens, whose most obvious contribution, to a waiting and anxious world is their ability to serve as models of the youth so familiar with ready-made clothing advertisements...
...hobos and marines, the puppets on the stage should speak as do their genuine prototypes in freightyards and trenches. People who go to "What Price Glory" and "Outside Looking In" merely to be shocked, will probably not be harmed by hearing what should long since have been distastefully familiar...
...haul steam roads, the ever-growing motor industry is now beginning to appropriate the very tracks of the steam locomotive. It is likely that this invasion will never be crowned with complete success. Yet it is equally likely that the gasoline locomotive will in a few years be a familiar sight on branch lines of most U. S. railway systems...