Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, to Bled, the summer capital of Yugoslavia. There, Queen Marie of Rumania settled down for a visit with her daughter, young Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. "The mother-in-law of the Balkans," 51, will visit in September, it was announced, that nation to whose citizens her face is familiar through mammoth cosmetic advertisements and syndicated press matter-the U. S. Meanwhile King Ferdinand of Rumania set out to visit Paris, Switzerland, Rome, the Vatican. Despatches reported an allegedly not serious clash between potent bands of Bulgarian bandits and Rumanian frontier guards at Aflar and Dobrudja. One Eva Maneva, little...
...until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss...
Year in, year out, for many a year, pleased citizens have contemplated lawyers' proposals for judicial reform. Other citizens have been vexed that the field for reform never lessened. Last week a familiar twa,ng was sounded in the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Mayor Dever of Chicago decried prohibition. Onetime Bar-President Chester I. Long decried present methods of judicial procedure. Oscar Hallam of St. Paul decried paroles. Expert witnesses, insanity defense, Senator Thomas J. Walsh (who is holding up in the Senate a bill for simplification of procedure)-all were decried seriatim; Finally, the Association...
...third paragraph you speak of Bolivar liberating Central America. This allusion certainly would create a misconception in the mind of anyone not familiar with Spanish-American history. As the only part of Central America, properly socalled, liberated by Bolivar was the Republic of Panama you could hardly refer to him in that manner...
...polo players are now in India. One team there has already caught the imagination of British polo followers. It consists of Major A. H. Williams, Captain R. George, Major E. G. Atkinson and Captain J. P. Dening. It will be noted that only one of these, Major Atkinson, is familiar to followers of polo in America...