Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beach at Venice the Mayor, brilliantly attired in white flannels and kaleidescopic sweater, strolled among pajama-clad bathers and loiterers. He would don no beach-pajamas, saying that they reminded him of a familiar dream, that of appearing unclad at some social function. Mrs. Walker wore a yellow, fragile garment, a morning dress. At dinner Mayor Walker's trunk had not arrived; ill-dressed for the first time in his political career, he sauntered into the restaurant at his hotel, clad not in evening clothes but in a lounge suit. Cosmopolites, attracted by the Mayor's complete nonchalance...
Youth's Companion. That portion of the population sometimes insultingly termed "kiddies" has a new toy. It is a familiar toy, enlarged and repainted. The Youth's Companion, famed youth's companion, appears this month monthly. It is larger?more pictures, more stories, more advertising. The editor reports no change of policy, purpose or ideals, these having remained the same since the paper was founded by Nathaniel P. Willis. Mr. Willis then stated: "This is a day of particular care for youth. Our children are and characters are prepared for the scenes and duties of a brighter day." With these...
...Gary kept insisting that a still bigger corporation must be formed to compete with England and Germany, how Mr. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie and put Charles M. Schwab, a Carnegie man, in the presidency and Judge Gary in the executive chair of the first billion-dollar trust is familiar history...
Looks. Is the complexion of the motor highway to change radically or only in slight degree? That is the question which is everywhere asked when Henry Ford announces a new line of cars. Never since familiar Ford Model T first appeared (in 1907) has the change of complexion been radical. This time it seemed that a radical change of complexion must come. Last week a photographer waylaid one of the forthcoming Ford models as it whizzed along on a country road test in southeastern Michigan. The blurred pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring...
...Middle West be scorned, says Mr. Noyes, for it was Lincoln's home. And Detroit, though England would never guess it, lets more marine tonnage through her gates than any other port in the World. Dallas, unheard of in musical England, is familiar to Kreisler and Paderewski. Hollywood is actually a very minor adjunct to Los Angeles and "the most successful makers of temporal happiness in the world today" are by no means limited to cinema, chewing gum and flivvers...