Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play itself has been little altered. The familiar rabble-rousing harangue of Mark Antony is still the potent climax. The terror of the situation and the violence of the passions released by the demagogue are starkly symbolized by the casting of a gigantic shadow of the orator high up on the white brick wall in back. The events of the civil war following the assassination of Caesar are barely touched upon, and Caesar's ghost does not appear at all. Brutus dies almost immediately after Cassias. The play ends suddenly with its apology for its conscientious here, Brutus, and with...
...Most familiar in the group was the face of John L. Lewis. Hardly less conspicuous were the lanky figure of Owen D. Young and the wizened features of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont. Accompanying these recognized spokesmen of Labor, Industry and Finance were two early...
...Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When Mrs. Greene's friends began to gather he did not need to be told what familiar, ugly thought they had in mind. At the crucial moment when Sheriff Calvin Hollis was trying to calm the crowd, up stepped Planter Robert Knox Greene himself. How Planter Greene, a cousin of Alabama's Representative Sam Hobbs, persuaded the mob to disperse he was soon explaining to the Associated Press. "I told...
Filibuster. The actual contents of the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill, as simple as they were familiar, would scarcely keep the U. S. Senate busy for that period. Like its predecessors, it provided for Federal prosecution, and a $5,000 fine or up to five years' imprisonment, or both, for sheriffs & peace officers who did not afford criminals and suspected criminals reasonable protection from mobs (any gatherings of more than three persons). Its other principal provision, the payment of an indemnity up to $10,000 to the family of a victim of mob violence by the county whose officials are responsible...
...human brain the cerebral cortex, whose outer layers are visible in pickled specimens as the familiar wrinkled folds which look like sweetbreads, is the seat of reason and intellection. It is also the seat of emotional consciousness. But consciousness is not a process; it is an end-product. The mechanisms which produce emotional consciousness appear to be situated in the diencephalon, a central cluster of organs which is enfolded by the cerebral hemispheres...