Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agree with him. Yet in present times the breakfast table has been supplanted by the quick lunch system with its ready-to-serve conversation, and the coffee-houses of the seventeenth aned eighteenth centuries have given way to gatherings where "the one about the traveling salesman" or the too-familiar cry. "Here you heard this one?" are the order of the day. No more is needed in order to be a "wit" than a superficial line of questionable repartee or the ability to first casually...
...humor comes more easily. The author of the casual lines entitled "By the Way" has done his work uncommonly well. In economy of expression he excells as well as in the quality of his matter. Likewise, "Typical Topics" and "Lampy's Question-Box" are well done in a vein familiar to readers of humorous columns in contemporary newspapers. Into the involved "Chart" the statistician has inserted sly fun, and also some commonplaceness. "The Freshman's Credo" is another bit of sophisticated writing which has avoided the fatal touch of routine. Much of the verse, too, is skilfully written. In technique...
...whole, the Yard looks much the same. University Hall has not yet assumed its February gravity, and perhaps Holworthy appears a trifle rakish; but these things will adjust themselves in time. The atmosphere is strangely familiar. There is the same haggard-faced individual who informs you that only eight C's will stave off his forced retirement at Mid-Years. The same cheery greeting from the man who has forgotten your name; but, shaking your hand warmly, asks what kind of a summer you have had, and makes a careful note of where you are rooming this year...
...when you have completed your LaSalle work, you can truthfully say that you are not only a thoroly trained man, but an experienced man--you know the bed-rock principles and you have used them all--they are familiar tools in your hands...
...experience makes him know that altho he may be assuming a new position at higher pay, the duties of that position are an old, familiar story...