Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked in the glassblowing department before becoming a company executive and who heads the Boy Scouts in the Corning district. The Corning Glass Works makes electric light bulbs, thermometers, rail-way-signals, laboratory equipment, art-glass, all manner of glass specialties. It developed Pyrex. a heat-resisting glass most familiar in the form of baking-dishes but also used in radio and other insulation...
While he remained a familiar mystery on the campus, his fame soon reached beyond Harvard. His first poems were published when he was 31. In the next eleven years he had produced The Sense of Beauty, which Münsterberg called the best book on esthetics ever written in the U. S., two more volumes of verse, a series of interpretations of poetry and religion, the five volumes of his urbane, skeptical statement of naturalism, The Life of Reason. Although Santayana himself had declared that he was no poet, comparing himself to Don Quixote, the Spanish-American War aroused...
Apparently startled, Senator Clark muttered that he was "not familiar'' with the matter. In a moment he recovered himself, rallied to his colleague's support. Quickly he rattled off passages from Mr. Balfour's memoirs, from Colonel House's diary, from a letter written by Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George-all indicating that on his visit to the U. S. in the spring of 1917 Secretary Balfour had told President Wilson and Secretary Lansing all about the secret treaties. Furthermore, declared Senator Clark, Secretary Balfour had left with the State Department...
...Pink slightly superior to its more recent predecessors in the series of pictures made by Cantor and Goldwyn is not so much the elaborate production numbers, in which the Goldwyn Girls function as decoratively as usual, but the activities of an animated young woman named Ethel Merman. Long familiar to Manhattan stage audiences, Ethel Merman's previous cinema appearances have been trifling and unimpressive. In Strike Me Pink, cast as a cabaret entertainer who nearly demolishes Eddie Pink's romance with a wholesome blonde (Sally Eilers), she comes into her own, sings all three of the show...
INNOCENT SUMMER-Frances Frost-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Poet Frost's first novel lavishly embroiders the now familiar theme that in the countryside every prospect pleases and only man is vile. THE WHOLE WORLD & COMPANY-Gretchen Green-John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). A scrapbook autobiography by the peripatetic daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman...