Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel that we should correct an erroneous impression wherever we may find it ... on the theory that editorial utterances based on a misapprehension of facts might be adversely influential with some of the newlyweds who may not be so personally familiar with the merits of the Bissell sweeper, although most established homes consider the Bissell sweeper just as essential as ever for the everyday and many times a day sweeping requirements...
...Paris 30,000 beds. In bed 30,000 humans more or less connected with the American Legion. In parched U. S. stomachs sizzling French champagne. All the old familiar folk cries...
...when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling, pad-padding, loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing the supernatural, in sheer romance a virtue but here a weakness, crops out often enough to mar the fine simplicity with which more familiar miracles are treated-Saul's epileptic vision in a sandstorm on the Damascus road; making the cripple of Lystra leap up and walk; breathing life into the broken boy, Eutychus; surviving the viper's bite at Melita, island of honey. But only by its preponderant power...
Bostonians wriggled, grimaced and guffawed last week at "a joyous epic; fantasy for the orchestra composed by P. S. Converse, inspired by the familiar legend 'The Ten Millionth Ford Is Now Serving Its Owner.'" When the Boston Symphony ceased its jolting cacophony, no insults were hurled at Composer Converse, bowing on the platform. His sense of humor, unlike that of Composer George Antheil (see above), is not inscrutable...
...insures a certain variety to any issue, whatever the quality of the accidental "contributions" may be. As your reviewer galloped through the April number of the Advocate, the track, in the main, seemed to him rather trodden and the same, but there loomed up every few rods the pleasantly familiar obstacles that bade him take breath and hold had for a bracing rise...