Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Fitzgerald's Poems are much smoother and more conventional in form. His themes are often familiar-his Boston poems include a "Charles River Nocturne," glimpses of the Common-and he writes of autumn woods and winter nights. A dominant note in his poems is loneliness, but it is a loneliness the poet accepts without regret, and it is enriched with memories of childhood, with grave and unpretentious reflections on destiny and death, with flashes of warmly human or amusingly discordant scenes that the world offers for his attention. Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual...
Preceding this picture will be a travelogue of the Bay of Naples, bearing as title the familiar name "Capri...
...only a few seconds or minutes. This trip over the Journey of Death, the 'Road of 1,500 Turnings,' lasts from 90 minutes to two hours if you get through at all. "0ur native Eritrean driver is driving a popular-priced American car and is not too familiar with its mechanics. . . . We reach a scene that sobers him. A motor truck has just plunged over a 150-foot precipice. Mangled remains of the driver are dragged up to the road. He lies there dying, a tall, fair, handsome young
Instead of going down of shafts with his father, national among coal miners and Fairless worked his way three. Northern Ohio University, entered the steel business graduation. Familiar with a problems of workers by here Benjamin F. Fairless rise belied his name...
...Caldwell Coleman, who had pronounced the Act unconstitutional "in its entirety" (TIME, Nov. 18). They also had the opinion of a Philadelphia law firm and of a Philadelphia lawyer, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper. A stanch Republican, a devout Episcopalian whose portly figure is as familiar in Philadelphia as the facade of Independence Hall, Lawyer Pepper set a U. S. record for per-vote campaign expenditures when he ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1926 ($2.42 per Bepper ballot...