Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next week Mr. Monteux has chosen Rachmaninov's long and too familiar symphony, a Habanera of Aubert, and the overture to Smetana's "Bartered Bride": Mme Elizabeth Rethberg will sing arias from Wagner and Beethoven...
Since this latest "thou shalt not" has come into existence diligent search throughout the country has been made for a person who actually believes that the remains of some luckless Fido are actually incorporated in the familiar "wienie...
Turkey has at last followed the lead of other rejuvenated nations in establishing a democratic form of government. The Turkish republic, which has, indeed, been in existence for some time in temporary form, with all power centralized in a Grand National Assembly, is now spreading out into a more familiar organism--a Council of State, which is a sort of upper house, a Cabinet, and a Prime Minister...
...best serious dramas to appear on the American stage in years, while the Chauve-Souris players are the best vaudeville company if they can be classified as such in the world. The beetle-browed Baileff and his villainous English, Katinka and her Wooden Soldiers both already familiar to many are but two of the figures which the Chauve Souris has made famous...
...self-indulgence. Curbed cravings cannot now be satisfied with impunity. Insulin cannot be purchased to be taken with one's meals." He does not impugn the therapeutic value of insulin, but emphasizes the fact that it is a powerful extract which should be administered only by a physician familiar with its use, and that a constant surplus of sweets cannot be neutralized indefinitely even by regular dosage of insulin...