Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There began in London a campaign to raise $500,000 to establish a permanent opera company. Prime mover is Isadore D. Elara, a British composer who has been well received in Paris. The project takes the guise of the familiar "music for the masses," in that it plans a box office rate of $1 for the best seats. There are to be no highly paid stars, but a large company with full length seasons. The present Covent Garden yearly season lasts only six weeks...
...words for the hymns should be set to some familiar tune such as "Integer Vitae" or "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand...
...Governments of foreign nations, has been different from anything known in the United States or in England. Sometimes subsidies are given direct. More often journalists have secretly been in receipt of money in return for their supposed influence. The system has been long established and perfectly familiar, but is none the less utterly reprehensible. There is no excuse for it. It brings journalism under suspicion and reproach. It will be a happy day for Continental Europe when it can point to newspapers that are self-supporting and independent and known by all to have opinions that cannot be bought...
...most surprising revelations is that the French Government itself not only countenanced but encouraged these subsidies. Magazine writers, financial editors, managing editors, feature writers,--all kinds of people on papers from the semi-official "Temps" to the familiar "Vie Parisienne" received their shares. In the one year, 1905, Russia spent 3,796,861 francs on the Paris press...
...been a familiar assertion of politicians that the presidential election of 1920 was a national repudiation by the American electorate of the proposal that the United States should join the League of Nations established by the "Covenant" embodied in the Treaty of Versailles and the other Peace Treaties of 1919. Yet the records show that the question was not submitted unequivocally to the people as a definite issue upon which the choice of the president should turn. By its platform, the Democratic Party declared it "favors the League of Nations as the surest, if not the only, practicable means...