Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Words for the Hymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Integer Vitae", "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand", or "Rock of Ages...
...spouse. The attendant complications need scarcely be enumerated. They include the intrusion on the wife's well-ordered domain of organ-grinders and spaghetti-jugglers from Mr. Malatesta's laborious past. They further include a titled wooer for the daughter of the family and all manner of familiar domestic difficulties. The formula has been working well for a good many years now. It may well work again...
...STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE-John E. Kellerd is appearing in special matinees of a new dramatization of the familiar story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Emphasis is placed less on the romantic phase of the situation and more on the mental struggle of Dr. Jekyll than in the former dramatization. It is maintained that Stevenson's chief object was to emphasize the moral effect of the habit of evil on a character normally good...
...gallery of Algonquin notables is completed by such familiar figures as Alexander Woollcott, urbane dramatic observer of the New York Herald; Robert Benchley, humorist and dramatic critic of Life; Robert Sherwood, merry cinema commentator...
...failure of the University to maintain the superiority on the Princeton ice was due to the ability of the visitors to cover the Crimson skaters. Since the opposing teams have played two games together, each team was familiar with the individual play of the other, and it was evident last night that Coach Gaw had instructed his charges to stay close to the University attackers. Owen was seldom able to get loose for his usual long rallys, for Van Gerbig and Davis kept him well covered up. Crosby, too, was well taken care of but his quick starting ability enabled...