Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conductor. For though they had played well, in fact beautifully, the musicians were aware that most of the credit for a splendid performance of one of the most exciting compositions in modern music belonged to Mr. Monteux-who first conducted Le Sacre du Printemps and who is admittedly as familiar with the tangled splendor of its score as the composer himself...
Although Anglo-American relations have in the past suffered no more serious strain than the familiar differences that trouble the best of navy experts, excusable in the absence of a God-given standard for the value of a dreadnaught in terms of destroyers, such an innocent ignorance cannot be ascribed to the English critic of America. The thoughts of the educated Englishman of 1853 and of 1928 on the Harvard of each year have a certain piquance of their own, as they spring from the minds of Emerich Edward Dalberg, Baron Acton, who visited the University in the year...
...problem of the negro of America home at Harlem has been periodically attended to. The floods brought attention to the levee negro. But Catfish Row is likewise Africa in America. The attention drawn by the Liberal Club to a worthy drama has involved a too-familiar identification of the name of Harvard with the lighted overhangs of Tremont and Boylston Street; yet the identification seems this time not unjustified...
...cellist, now with the New York Symphony. Press notices quoted in his own biography name him an artist of "graceful style which he is able to suit to many different moods." Writer Saleski can make no such claim. His sketches are cut and dried, peppered sparsely with long-familiar anecdotes. His enthusiasm for every Jew has robbed him of his discrimination, defeated his own humble purpose of segregating them. Superlatives are plentiful as periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative of the spirit dominating...
...written by Author Powys, the story of Hudson's voyages-these two to the U. S. and two earlier ones to the north of Europe-is an intimate and elaborate chronicle. All the familiar details of life that precede and accompany the gaudiest adventures, like the supplies with which a captain fills the hold of his ship before a long voyage, are carefully inserted by Author Powys. He tells how an Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead...