Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herald" Saturday, a correspondent remarked that it one wanted to know the significance of Pippa's. "All's right with the world," it was only necessary to go to the Aroboretum on a warm spring day. Like the Glass Flowers, the Arnold Arboretum is something that students are more familiar with by name than by experience. Outsiders make it a Mecca to be numbered with the Paul Revere House and the Museum of Fine Arts; but the student who has spent four years here without ever seeing it is only one of many; and the one who does not even...
After all, this news is not so startling. The Bible, our own American History, and countless "great stories" have already been dramatized for the films; it is only natural--to use a strangely familiar phrase--that the legitimate stage should have its fling. "G. B. S." has ventured to offer an epic of his own for stage production; why not Keith, or Loew--or even Ziegfeld? The blind poet is in vaudeville--surely a place can be found for the "morning-star" of English poetry in musical comedy; the Wife of Bath has possibilities. Not to mention the enormous advantage...
There are more than a few Phoenixes in the world; and the familiar "springing from its own ashes" is coming to be an every-day affair. The latest is that of the problem of the school teacher who carries his individual notions with him into the class-room--a problem to which the New York Tribune has seen fit to devote a lengthy editorial...
...their numbers ye shall know them" has been the not unusual attitude of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company in the past towards the conductors on its busses. But from now on, according to a recent announcement, the Fifth Avenue conductor will wear, instead of the familiar number-plate on his cap, a badge on his coat hearing his full name...
...book is a compilation of very short stories by an avowedly humorous, and occasionally incisive, author Not unlike Dorothy Canfield's "Hillsboro People", it is to us more fascinating than that charming collection of stories, partly, no doubt, by reason of its dealing with life in a less familiar stamping ground than New England...