Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared a crested toy helmet, bravely capped by a toy British flag. Behind his twiddling fingers, the small creature's mouth was opened in scolding anger; his scrubby mustache and beetling eyebrows bristled. His spectacles added to the effect of impotent, scrawny anger, which the tall figure, in familiar top hat and long coattails, surveyed with quizzical geniality, hands in pockets...
Said the London Evening Standard: "So long as we persist in thinking that there is some sort of link between them [the two countries], so long will some of us persist in using that language of frank and familiar rebuke which (however mistakenly) is supposed to be proper between relatives. If we could bring ourselves to think of America as a great foreign power with which we are on friendly terms, but which expects to be treated and will treat us just like another foreign power, then these troubles might be avoided...
...comparison to the way many Englishmen feel and talk about the U. S., the Kipling "rebuke" by allegory and innuendo actually was "frank and familiar." But Englishmen who feel and talk otherwise took comfort from the fact that, though loud, Mr. Kipling is not laureate. In his heyday he was most useful, hymning England's dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man's Burden, making Empire-Building a very real, brutal, glorious thing for schoolboys to dream about. As late as last spring, during the coal strike, his first...
...forbidding mountains in southern Japan. This youth of 24 who dropped in upon President Doumergue last week on his way to a winter of study at Oxford has indeed been chiefly responsible for the wave of interest in skiing and alpine climbing, now spreading over young Japan. Meanwhile those familiar with modern Nippon recalled that all the princes of the present ruling house are remarkable for their athletic prowess...
...Budapest, Bela Morvay, clown, put mad new touches upon his old familiar act at the Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...