Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...porch across the street immediately began firing with repeating shotguns at two men who had emerged from a fish shop and were entering a parked automobile. The targets died at once, torn and streaming with slug wounds. They were identified as John ("Bowlegs") Oliveri and Joseph Salamone, familiar to the police as members of the local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined the Capone "mob," deserting a rival faction. . . . That night, on the South Side, one James Reggi was murdered in an alley by revolver bullets. He had Oliveri's telephone number in his pocket. . . . Chicago's police...
...control of Pennsylvania was a myth, that Boss Vare was Boss indeed and that Hooverism had Boss Vare to thank for its deciding boost. As added evidence of the supremacy of Vare over Mellon, observers recalled that President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania R. R., a Vare familiar, had been made National Committeeman from Pennsylvania instead of Senator Reed, the obedient Mellon man. For explanation of Vare animus toward Secretary Mellon it was recalled that George Wharton Pepper had the Mellon money behind him when he opposed Vare for the Senate in 1926, and that far more money...
...Quarto editions of Shakespeare are especially valuable, since they are nearer to the poet himself in point of time than the familiar Folio editions, which were published after his death. The Quartos went to press during Shakespeare's own lifetime...
Crowds attending the West Point, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania football games at the Stadium next fall will find the old familiar wooden stands blocking the open end of the horseshoe. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, received notice yesterday from E. T. Roemer, acting building commissioner of the city of Boston, that permission to rebuild these temporary stands, suspended last year, would be accorded again for this fall...
Since 1919, when, in criticizing the condition of the steel industry, he rebuked the late Judge Elbert Henry Gary and spoke harshly of the 12-hour working day prevalent then, Bishop McConnell's name has been perhaps more familiar to laymen than that of any other Methodist. Always vitally interested in questions of public as well as churchly import, Bishop McConnell headed the active Committee on Christian Unity and Industrial Problems at the recent International Missionary Council in Jerusalem. At Kansas City, Bishop Mc Connell was assailed on almost frivolous charges of "maladministration and immorality. " In transferring...