Word: familiarity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...usual, Signor Mussolini managed in his discourse to turn several familiar ideas inside out, disemboweling them with hearty, ogrish gust...
...President Coolidge, which was properly reported in boxed press notices. Manhattan viewers had themselves thrilled to vicarious trans-Atlantic flying. Baltimore loomed and was drawn away from Philadelphia and its identifying rivers, the Schuylkill and the Delaware, guided the ship toward Trenton. With Commander Rosendahl at the bridge, familiar upper-New Jersey hillets and meadows revolved like a slow treadmill, until the heterogeneous mass of the Manhattan topography was seen waiting. Manhattan-on-the-roof facetiously commented upon the alcoholic content of the ship's beverage supply. Many a snippy monoplane, a half-dozen biplanes swirled like fleas about...
Near Yarmouth last week Englishmen early one evening heard a disagreeably familiar purring sound. Then they saw the first Zeppelin to appear over England since...
...Rock River estate of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for Illinois Congress-man-at-large, her Holstein herd graze. Prof. George W. Cavanaugh of Cornell University secured permission to subject those Rock River cows to an experimental diet. Since July11 they have become epicures among cows, familiar with rare seasoning. Their ordinary feed has been powdered with seaweed rich in iodine...
...terrific philippic knew Roy A. Young. Famed masters of finance have won reputations for taciturnity, austerity. But Governor Young is friendly, cheerful, talkative. He was twitted", last week, about his nickname, coined by the able financial writer for the New York World John F. Sinclair is a northwesterner, familiar with breezy phrases, breezy people. He called Governor Young, "the glad-hand artist of the Federal Reserve." The nickname stuck...