Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dixie Handicap. Southern gentleman story, usual type. Beautiful daughter, race horse, no money. Young man saves race horse from rich enemies. Race horse wins $50,000 at Latonia. Young man wins daughter. Familiar; just a little better than usual...
...blinding snowstorm near Kaneville, Ill. His motor failed. A pilot under such conditions is helpless. He cannot tell where there is a spot to land; he cannot guess whether the earth is thousands of feet away or grazing the wheels of his landing carriage. Sergeant Gilbert, moreover, was not familiar with the route. He decided that a crash was unavoidable. He jumped...
...summer and fall of 1924 marked the transition from the first stage of easy money and dullness to the second stage of easy money, active stock-market speculation, stationary or declining bond prices and reviving industry. The sequence of these phases of the business cycle are familiar to all; the question thus is one of their velocity and probable duration. Moreover, no two business cycles have ever been exactly alike except in their general economic principles; and granted the whole business-cycle theory, elaborate analysis of each given indus-try still remains necessary...
...went up on the first special matinee of Candida, disclosed Katherine Cornell in the title role, Pedro de Cordoba, Clare Eames, Richard Bird and Ernest Cossart in her support; went down on one of the few notable productions of the season. Shaw's ideas in the play were familiar. But Shaw knew his people must not be simply puppets of protest against a world's uncertainty. He made them flesh and blood; under the spell of a virtually flawless performance, they came poignantly to life. Ideas chip and disappear; emotion is a constant quantity...
...among the palms, tinkling of glasses and a toast. To those who return to fond firesides, the holiday offers an assortment of ties selected by solicitous aunts, the open adoration of young cousins, the damp and dutiful kiss of younger sisters, advice, but with these the Christmas tree, the familiar faces, the Yule-log brightness, and Christmas joy. To all, Cambridge acolytes, metropolitan revelers, and hearth-side rejoicers, the CRIMSON wishes a very merry Christmas...