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Word: familiarize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Hiram W. Johnson and Charles Evans Hughes to get together, Candidate Hughes lost California and the election, in November 1916. Each statement that you have made regarding this incident has been different and each one that I have read has been incorrect. It happens that I am quite familiar with the facts concerning the relations of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...stairs to the door which the wife of the other opens for him, you would think of "Enoch Arden" or foresee at least the old pattern of passion, quarrel, and reconciliation. And since all stories are old stories, the pattern you foresaw is here, but since some never become familiar you would hardly foresee the patient, particular realism which makes this German "Enoch Arden" into living, modern truth, or guess the force of the emotion shaping the layers of incident to an ending stripped of grandiloquence. Struggling to get out of Siberia, the two comrades (there are only three people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Play Without a Name. Upon that familiar pattern, the triangle, Austin ("Seventh-Heaven") Strong has superimposed a less readily recognizable, fourth-dimensional figure. It consists of a strong-interlusive plotting of the working of the human brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...theme is familiar. Gladys, a chorus girl, wants a man with money. She finds soon enough dollars are not as nice as Neil Hamilton's square jaw and swift right job to an opponent's proboscis. She gets him in three episodes...

Author: By A. G. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

Nevertheless, I sympathize with his motives. While I was attempting to undermine the republic that afternoon I was greatly hampered by many boisterous gentlemen of Mr. Hubbard's day and age who were busily undermining the Constitution in ways with which Mr. Hubbard may be familiar. And I feel sure I have a supporter in the cameraman who was knocked out that afternoon by a flying tackle from the rear by one of Mr. Hubbard's buddies--perhaps another doughty upholder of the country's sacred institutions. Un-Menckenly yours Edward F. Clark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Internal Evidence | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

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