Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield fluffing about the footlights in their familiar gabby fashion. Cecil does not forget he has teeth and Cleo cannot forget she's pretty and drawls...
...obviously not conducted with the proper attention to detail. The prisoner was a man of mature years, and was doubtless confirmed in crime; a long record of misdeeds should have suggested to the meanest intelligence that he was not the ideal type for a test case. Also, being familiar with police methods, he may have surmised that he was being invited into a trap; and acting on the theory that he was being given rope with which to hang himself, he determined no doubt that his moral demise should at least be accomplished with eclat...
Unhappily there is, within this warlike island; another party, whose outcries sound strangely familiar. These excited folk insist on making their new Republic "100 per cent French." Already there are more than 10 per cent of foreigners, mostly Americans, who spoil all the walters with their ill-proportioned tips, and all the landladies with regular payments. Almost as bad, "American is the language most commonly and most vociferously spoken" in the cafes and restaurants. In view of these outrages, the Isle Saint Louis proposes to appeal to the League of Nations. Americans who may visit Paris in the near future...
...Cinderella story. Here a man-about-town, world-weary as all men-about-town are in the cinema, dresses up a little boarding house slavey in the height of fashion and turns her loose his society friends. Author and director seem to have scamped their theme, which is the familiar one of clothes making the woman, for they give spectators no scenes in which to determine "what's wrong with this picture." They furnish a quite human and interesting turn to a hackneyed and rather melodramatic situation, providing Norma Shearer with her chance to be a melting ingenue...
Last week Dr. Canby announced that he had formed a new and independent publication soon to appear under the name of the Saturday Review of Literature. He described it as a "familiar publication in a new dress and with a new name...