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Word: familiarity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his speech, the boos began again, creating a deep, ominous undertone in every burst of cheers. Nominee Landon fought back with loud voice and waving fist, hammering on nearly all his familiar themes the Constitution, the Supreme Court, the American Way, Spending, Regimentation, Relief Corruption, Taxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Last Lap | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Suddenly from loudspeakers near the microphone came a familiar golden voice in all its natural resonance. There was no mistaking it. It was the voice of Franklin Roosevelt himself and it said: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office as President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Record on Record | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...usual procedure is for the husband to register with a hired corespondent at an English hotel, the staff of which are familiar with their jobs. When the wife brings the suit for divorce, hotelmen testify that the husband and the corespondent spent the night together in the same room and were registered on the blotter as man & wife. Needless to say, in such sordid circumstances any actual commission of adultery is usually omitted by the husband, whose mood is apt to be one of bitterness at a divorce system which many British jurists and prelates have denounced as "revolting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Innocents Abroad | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Women, a pastel-toned oil in the familiar, delicately decadent manner of France's aging Marie Laurencin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: One-Shot Winner | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...character early in this picture in reference to Marion Davies. Actually, Cinemactress Davies' face, first seen on the screen in 1918, is getting quite old. It will never be as old, however, as Cain and Mabel's plot, which combines two of the cinema's most familiar story formulas: 1) Hate Can Turn to Love; 2) The Way to a Man's Heart Is Through His Stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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