Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...softly: 'Don't, Tony! Oh don't, dear boy!' But she was a gardenia, soft and lush and pale-not a very suitable flower when it came to resistance. She thought of her age, and of her husband's: Tony was young- fresh, strong, familiar young arms- clean, rugged young face-hot misguided youth!-It was too much for her. Sobbing under her breath, and half opening her thin lips, she pressed him against her as fiercely as she had pushed him away...
Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of the famed poet: "I issued a statement giving the lie to an allegation that the smithy concerning which my father once wrote was situate in Newbury, England. Said I: 'As a child I was always perfectly familiar with the smithy down the street here at the corner of Brattle and Story Streets [Cambridge, Mass.], and never had any doubt but that it was the original of the poem. My father passed this smithy every morning on his walks to the Village. He never was in England for any sufficiently long period to pass...
...concluded that religion is being presented in a dead language, and is wondering what it is all about. There is a linguistic stalemate between the generations; the game is off; neither can move on the same board. So that today, when we speak to undergraduates in even the most familiar terms of the language of religion, we mean one thing (the fruit of our maturer reflection and experience) and they think we mean another. The opinion has developed among students that what the older generation means by its religion is neither intelligible nor useful...
Flossie. This musical comedy belongs rightfully in the foregoing category. It unconsciously burlesques most of the musical plays you've seen. It has a synthetic plot, with the familiar situation of the wrong couple forced to occupy a bedroom together by an interfering relative, while silliness is unconfined. Its song cues can be spotted several minutes in advance. The dirt is dished at every opportunity. Perhaps it is meant as a satire on the typical French farce, for its creator, Armand Robi, was nurtured by the Folies Bergeres. Its chief asset is a talented chorus that cuts up tirelessly...
...become a habit. Its subject, its method, its technique is not changed to meet altered conditions. The flimsy subterfuge, "at no time before the youth of the country, etc," falls, for it too is habitual. The oldest living graduate, should his memory only serve him, would enjoy the familiar flourishes and fancies, the admonitions to develop character, industry, leadership, which he knew so well...