Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simon Bucharoff, Chicagoan, is nevertheless preparing to beard the Teutonic lion in his own den. His opera, Sakahra, is about to be produced in Frankfort. The book, dealing with the familiar brother and sister who did not know they were kin until their affection had reached a stage neither brotherly nor sisterly, was written by Isabel Buckingham, also of Chicago...
Nothing has been more perplexing to lawyers, trial judges and appellate courts than the "sage inconsistencies of the rules of, evidence." It is familiar law that confessions given under duress are not admissible. A confession must be voluntary, without fear of punishment or hope of reward. The problem is to fit particular cases to these general principles. The decision in this case should be a valuable guide in this difficult matter. The appeal was argued before the Supreme Court by James B. Shea on a brief signed by John W. Davis when he was a member of Stetson, Jennings, Russell...
Esperanto has long been the joke of the linguistic world. Its curious conglomeration of Germanic roots and Latin terminations, its complicated syntax depending upon an accurate inflexion, and above all its bizarre combination of the utterly strange and the too familiar seem to have fitted it peculiarly never to be used. A few pedagogical monstrosities might amuse themselves with translating the masterpieces of other literatures into its artificially simple rhetoric, but that so practically minded a person as a minister of education would try to plant it in schools already overburdened by the attempt to combine the useful...
Heartbroken Clown a Familiar Figure...
...contrast with the serious trend of the majority of the publications is a collection of familiar essays, called "Getting a Laugh." The essays are by Prof. Grandgent '83 who makes them have a delightfully whimsical and humorous touch...