Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sirs: I note in your issue of Feb. 3, under the article "Make a Big V!" the statement: "In successive reigns the head of the Sovereign on coins and stamps faces alternately left & right. Thus Queen Victoria faces left, King Edward VII right, King George V left." Not being familiar with British coins, I am unable to challenge your statement regarding them. However, I have examined British and British Colonial postage stamps for a good many years, as has every philatelist of any experience. Therefore. I must ask you to correct your statement regarding Sovereigns' faces on British stamps...
Eager to oblige, Vermont Marble Co. recently issued a booklet of ready-made epitaphs, subdivided under such subjects as DEITY, CONSOLATION, LOVE, REST, INSPIRATION and SORROW and mostly quoted from Scripture or familiar poetry. Recommended...
...last December newshawks discovered Samuel Insull in a suite of offices on the 42nd floor of that famed Insull monument, Chicago's Civic Opera Building. Dressed in cutaway and striped trousers, the white-crested utilitarian was about to take a familiar chair at the head of a long directors' table, carefully laid with pads & pencils. Between puffs on his cigar, Mr. Insull announced that he had nothing to say-"yet." But what he was up to was no secret. At 76, he was getting into radio broadcasting (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week the Insull venture was formally chartered...
...mind about Lamson's guilt or innocence that it took 13 days to select twelve good men & true from a panel of 520 veniremen. But there was to be nothing new at the latest trial except the jury. While the selection of jurors was going on, the familiar chief exhibit, a model of the Lamson bathroom, was kept shrouded from view. As it has done twice before, the prosecution was ready to show that blood from a severed artery could not have spurted naturally as far as Mrs. Lamson's did, that, ergo, Mr. Lamson must have sprayed...
Last week Hofmann again proved his power with long-familiar music, made his piano seem not like a man-made instrument but like a vibrant human voice spontaneously singing, whispering, shouting to the skies. Every piano student knew the pieces by Gluck, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt. But fresh cause for wonder were Hofmann's dazzling arpeggios, the flying double octaves, the countless tonal colors. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times next day: "It was playing of the grandest and most compelling sort...