Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven good men and true, Democrats and Republicans from several walks of life, constituted the Jury of Award: Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Roosevelt, Chairman; General James Guthrie Harbord, Chief of Staff of the A. E F.; Colonel Edward M. House, familiar of Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Kansas editor; Brand Whitlock, U. S. Minister to Belgium during...
...returned for more metropolitan appearances - its complexion vastly changed. The antagonizing music has almost disappeared. Instead the Scandinavians present a program of familiar sights and sounds, with such harmless medicines as Anitra's Dance from Greig's "Peer Gynt...
Russell Janney, producer of "Sancho Panza," has endeavored to maintain the spirit of Cervantes' "Don Quixote", so that those who are familiar with the famous Don and his encounter with the windmills may not be disappointed in the transferring of the atmosphere from the book to the stage. Even Sancho Panza's famous donkey, "Dapple", has not been overlooked. In fact, he shares honors with Mr. Skinner...
...Mountain coming to Mohammed in order to convince him by a material display of power. Never having been acquainted with even the possibility of such a higher life as the spiritual before, the slave and citizen of Rome, and elsewhere, demanded proof in a sphere with which he was familiar--the realm of the physical...
...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!"-The familiar Punchinello plot made shiny and new by the skillful Belasco-Barrymore (Lionel) touch...