Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, since I returned from England where 1 am familiar enough with people of all classes to realize that TIME has caught the reactions of the British public far more accurately and honestly than any other publication or paper. Concerning the reactions of New York movie audiences, let me say that their inclinations are usually painful to civilized people. Characterized by sloppy sentiment, curious changeability, delirium and misplaced loyalties, they are not the reactions of the British masses. After all, the majority of the British people are not those who stand in the streets and yell, and I feel that...
...familiar State Symphony Orchestra (Federal Music Project) is to play in sanders Theatre this evening at 8:15. Among the works to be performed are Randall Thompson's Second Symphony and Bruch's Violin Concerto in E minor. The Federal Music Project is also giving Horatio W. Parker's oratorio, "Hora Novissima," in Jordan Hall on Friday evening...
...Nobody knows why we celebrate Christmas-to keep up the old bunk I suppose. Some religious people think it is the day Christ was born. They don't know any more about it than a woodchuck." Mrs. Darrow admitted that her husband's opinions were familiar to the family, "but we have always seen to it that the youngsters enjoyed the holiday...
...Wingless Victory and, in the opinion of most professional observers, in effect prematurely ends the play. How Oparre is made first to leave intolerant Salem, and then to destroy herself and her two half-breed children, is a story which has no surprises for those familiar with the Medea legend, or even readers of Joseph Hergesheimer's almost identical narrative, Java Head (1919). An eager minority of the play's first audience impulsively applauded the more ringing of poetic Playwright Anderson's soliloquies, went home satisfied that they had seen and heard an-other Mary of Scotland...
Chicago's ambulance-chasers not only swindle insurance companies and corporations, but also the accident victims. To the familiar varieties of the racket they added many a new angle. Sample case history: John Doe, hit by a taxi, was hospitalized. At once a hospital attendant earned $10 by telephoning the racketeers. In a few minutes their representative appeared. Denied admittance, he proved good faith by paying the patient's bill in advance. He soon got Doe to sign a contract hiring his employer and agreeing to pay him 50% of the money won from a damage suit against...