Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ethics. Mr. Rockefeller is familiar with the parable about the rich man's son. He is a Christian, a member of the flock of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan. At this Church there is a Bible class, first conducted (as noted above) by Charles Evans Hughes, originated by Dr. Faunce, who became President of Brown University, from which Mr. Rockefeller graduated in 1897. Mr. Rockefeller became interested in the Bible class, became its leader, instructed it for seven years. Now he is its Honorary President. Several times a year he attends its meetings, reads to the members...
...parable is one that has been often quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle. The law, equally familiar, has to do with two Gods-one the Father of the Christian faith, the other Mam mon; a man cannot serve both. If he cleaves to the one, must he foreswear wealth? or can he discipline wealth and its devouring deity to the service he has himself elected...
...Author. Oscar W. Firkins, Minneapolis born, teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, whence he was graduated in 1884. He has long been familiar to readers of drama and poetry criticism in The Nation, The Yale Review and other periodicals. His other two large efforts are studies of Emerson and of Jane Austen...
...they could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder, nor did it die away. While they swapped butts, it grew, swelled into a steady, insistent, thunderous, stubborn volley, lasted for 13 minutes. The shuffling ones stared at one another in silent amaze. ''Cheest!" they said...
...with laughter. The score is easy, melodious, lighthearted, reminiscent of Wagner iu mannerism rather than in poetry. Miss Bori was Mistress Ford; Tenor Gigli, Master Fenton; Mme. Alda, Nannette. All did well, But the critics, as they hailed their frost-bitten taxi-men and drove home, were replacing their familiar bromides with other phrases: "A scene quite without precedent" (The New York Times) ; "A relatively obscure singer who walked away with the chief honors" (The New York Herald-Tribune) ; "An eager young man, who made music history when the brilliant audience lost control" (The New York World...