Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the point of view of sound business administration periodic changes--say once or twice a year--in the duties of those who patrol the college has everything in its favor. Unless all the night porters are familiar with every nook and cranny of the University, their usefulness in protecting the property and population is seriously impaired. With their simple routine functions to perform, the force's efficiency and morale is stiffened and braced by a change of outlook and terrain. Furthermore, the position of night patrolman at any one house should not become a vested interest, for watchmen...
Commenting on the transferring of all of the night janitors and watchmen, Durant remarked that the action was merely a routine procedure, and that the men will continue to be shifted about from time to time in order that in a few years they may be familiar with all the "beats" in the University...
...Reflected Glory" means Tallulsh Bankhead's glory reflected upon Tallulah Bankhead. Most commendably, however, Miss Bankhead's star is made to shine, not through the familiar expedient of excluding capable support, but rather through the skillful writing of George Kelly, with the maximum of adaptation to the peculiar talents of a peculiar artist. The actress is cast as an actress, and that leads to all sorts of dainty nuances. Sometimes Miss Bankhead acts the conscious actress, sometimes the unconscious actress, and sometimes she just acts...
...were the good Bishop more familiar with modern fox-hunting he would know that preserving foxes, rather than killing them, is the major concern of most organized hunts. In America, where earth stopping is not practised, when a fox is hard pressed he goes to ground,- (''hole" to you. Bishop, Matthew 8:20, and Luke 9:58), -and lives to run another day. The real object of a foxhunter is not to kill a fox, but to observe the wonderful skill and perseverance of a well-trained pack of hounds after a quarry conceded to be the most...
Paramount Studio Hollywood Confusing Sirs: In the Dec. 14 issue of TIME, on p. 60, col. 3, under Art, you state that "there is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies. ..." In the Dec. 14 issue of LIFE, on p. 27, under the reproduction of The Sailors' Barracks, by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico, is the remark that "The colonnade is her trademark." Now, admitting that de Chirico is Italian, an artist, and interested in horses and colonnades, I am curious to know whether...