Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taos, a white woman, fascinated by literary legends of the noble redman, made him her lover. When winter came and his wife on the reservation had trouble with the sheep and a sick child, Tall Walker was glad to give up his easy life and return to the familiar hardships of home...
...years: the bad girl with the heart of gold; the dipsomaniac writer; the hero pining for his lost love who makes her appearance in time's nick; the shady financier; the cuckold with his wife and her dishonest lover and all the rest. However, in China Seas this familiar crew has a new and entertaining bag of tricks to display...
After Dr. Pavlov, 450 physiologists read papers. Practically all of them were rehashes of familiar material...
...swimmers is phenomenally rapid is one of the axioms of the sport. Encouraging to coaches, who expect serious competition at next year's Olympic games, was the demonstration at last week's meet that new swimmers are now arriving on the scene not singly but in bunches. Familiar to rotogravure readers are the Rawls sisters-Katherine (18), Evelyn (16), Dorothy (15), Peggy (10). Evelyn last week finished third in the free-style mile, fourth in the medley. Dorothy was fourth in the 220-yd. breast stroke. Peggy stayed at home. At Manhattan Beach last week, four more families...
That Shanghai is both less informative and less exciting than the article in Fortune which suggested it to Producer Walter Wanger is not the fault of Actor Boyer. He functions with his usual skill, contrives to make Dmitri that most familiar of cinema anomalies, a plausible individual surrounded by implausible events. Good shot : the board room of a broker's office with customers in evening dress waiting for the market to open in New York...