Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus it appeared that the entire Elk Hills business would be dredged up again and that the familiar "little brown bag" in which Edward L. Doheny Jr. took to Mr. Fall the $100,000 which Mr. Doheny calls a loan and Government attorneys call a bribe would once more be inspected by a jury. Shocked, irate, lawyers for the defendants protested that Messrs. Fall and Doheny were being tried twice for the same offense. They argued that U. S. Justice had come to a lamentable state when the Government, having failed to get a conviction for conspiracy, could change...
Sirs: You probably are familiar with and have published the following quotation from Sophocles : "Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all." In the quotation, which I fairly stumbled across by the purest accident, the word time was spelled with...
...ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn of the aeronautical 'we'." At Central Park the struggling grasses were browbeaten while 250,000 humans watched Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith pin upon Colonel Lindbergh the state Medal of Honor...
Almost certainly the explanation is that President Coolidge is familiar with the career of General Butler-the career of a fighter who takes trouble by the whiskers. This General Butler literally did when, with only 180 Marines, he was besieged some years ago in a little Nicaraguan town, by a native general with over 2,000 troops. Smedley D. Butler, then a major, went out to parley with the besieging Commander, walked menacingly up to him, seized his long mustachios, poked a pistol into his midriff, and then twisted the Nicaraguan's whiskers until he howled out orders...
Next year will see only one familiar face-Dean Bacon's,-in the office of the Dean. To him the CRIMSON wishes a continuance of the success which has attended his work and that of his outgoing colleagues. To the succeeding assistant deans,-terms of office, not necessarily long but as happy as those of their predecessors...