Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With half the nation up to its ears in politics, Franklin Roosevelt last week played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark...
...southwest through the high running sea. Closer and closer it came, finally hove to less than a mile off. Frantic, the wrecked sailors waved their jackets, made out men sizing up their plight from the newcomer's bridge. On her bows they could see illegible characters and the familiar word Maru,* which all Japanese ships bear. Then this Maru steamed away toward Europe...
...familiar Schrafft quality right here in Harvard Square. Special luncheons and supper served daily...
...from free polyphony rather than arbitrary use of discord for its own sake. "A Pagan Poem" shows the composer mystic, idyllic even macabre. The modal atmosphere often felt in his music is the result of a strong impression made on him by the Russian liturgy with which he grew familiar as a young man visiting in Russia...
...outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...