Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard men on returning to Cambridge fall to experience the indefinable emotion called to life by familiar surroundings. The alumnus faithfully visits his old dormitory, Memorial Hall. Sever--and for the moment he is an undergraduate again. But from the college life of today, he remains apart on a pedestal of priority...
...formula of mystery is known to everyone. From the boy who tingles at the mention of murder to those rogues of the book world who are weary of the sameness of sudden death, the novel involving crime and courtship, homicide, and happiness, is familiar. Since its plot departs from this head-scratching standard set up by the writers of dectective fiction. "The Blind Goddess" may amuse even experienced cynics Instead of attempting to mystify, the amiable author has Richard Devens, a rich contractor, accidentally shot by Daniel Shay, his friend and business associate, before the eyes of the reader. This...
...summary of the report of the Committee on Education appointed last fall by the Student Council appears today. The questions raised therein concern familiar problems of University organization: the problem of securing the freest possible development of the individual within the bulky structure of a great university; the problem of adapting the same educational machinery to students both of modest and of extraordinary capacities; the problem of Freshman acclimatization, of effective operation of the plan of distribution, and many others hardly less significant. The recommendations embodied in the report represent the product of five months' work by the first student...
...easy play to present, but it must be a play which gives the Repertory company infinite pleasure after the banalities of Minick. What Minick lost, however, by enunciating a familiar problem in too bald and veracious a manner, the Circle loses by parading in a false and scaffolded plot a problem which has its roots in bigotry. The first act of the latter suffers immeasurably in consequence. From start to finish of the act there is talky-talk of the most stagey, witless sort, written to unfold the background of the play...
...hunger gnaws 20 minutes before train time, you make for the lunch counter and order?chicken a la King? Beef casserole? Braised pork? More likely, old dependable ham and eggs. They are too familiar to cause your palate much excitement, but as some one has said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?...