Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert Fitzgerald is a jolly fat man who is president of the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers and the stooge for the union's Communist-line bosses. Last week he gave a good demonstration of a now familiar dodge of proCommunists who are called on to explain their stand. Summoned before a subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, Fitzgerald tilted back in his chair and became blandly uninformed...
...Princess listening to Winston Churchill: "Juliana sat leaning forward, her firm chin firmly planted in her firm hand, squinting a little, nodding a little from time to time as she followed with an obvious effort Churchill's not very difficult line of thought. Her mien was strikingly familiar: it recalled the American matron who had learned at Bryn Mawr that an active interest in public affairs was the duty of an educated, responsible woman, and who was not going to use motherhood merely as an excuse for shirking her duty...
...would represent the U.S. in the Davis Cup matches? Now that Jake Kramer had turned pro, the first rank of U.S. amateur tennis was a pretty lackluster lot. At Newport, R.I., last week, in the Casino Invitation tournament, the old familiar faces went through their old familiar paces in a last unofficial singles warmup before Forest Hills. This week the Davis Cup committee, to nobody's surprise, picked Veterans Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy, Frank Parker and Billy Talbert to represent the U.S. against Australia. But the real news at Newport was made by youngsters whom the committee...
...trim Quaker town to honor its only famous son. Hoover dutifully examined the two-room frame cottage where he was born, nodded as the old wooden cradle was pointed out to him, took a drink from a gourd at the wooden pump out back. Did it all look familiar? Hoover smiled, explained candidly: "I left this home when I was four years old and moved to a house across the street. I don't remember anything about this house...
...Hurry, hurry, my dear friend, thumb over your Plutarch and choose a subject familiar to everyone-it counts a great deal." Jacques-Louis David, the painter prophet of the French Revolution, was advising a favorite pupil. "Now give yourself to what really constitutes history painting," he went on. "All other sorts . . . will disappear; only this is safe from men's passions...