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Word: familiarity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another window contains the original drawings of Tenniel to illustrate "Alice in Wonderland. Among familiar faces may be seen "Father William", the "Mad Hatter," and the "Rabbit" as they first made their bows to the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

Walter Woolf's buoyant masculinity and swordplay carry the show through a somehow familiar tavern scene. After that "The Red Robe" could run along on the magnificent staging of its seventeenth century interiors,s in which Watson Barratt has secured blendings of scenery and costume second only to those in Ames' "Merchant of Venice". But by this time Violet Carlson, yellow-haired and bandy-legged, has started being the only soubrette with a baby voice who was ever funny, and Barnett Parker and Barry Lupino have burlesqued all Flanders hip boots and picture hats out of sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...speaks with authority. It is time that reminiscences of this sort were circulated, as it is to the Advocate's credit, and the discredit of American journalism at large, that what is the first of a series that will undoubtedly multiply with the years, makes its appearance under the familiar seals. The Advocate has, in fact, scooped the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE VOTO FINDS ADVOCATE IS TIMELY AND READABLE | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

...exclusive purpose of an education for nine out of ten undergraduates is to prepare them for business. This absolute neglect of the value of study for its own sake and for the appreciation of human knowledge attendant on it hardly needs comment. Its glaring fallacy will be too familiar to anyone acquainted with the already large literature inspired by the spiritless existence of the retired business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MYOPIA HUNTS KNOWLEDGE | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

Giant Killer is eminently good reading for its new slant on a familiar story, and for its dramatic elaboration of scrimmages in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revised Editions | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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