Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stocked with the familiar pass-throwing T-quarterback, the speedy halfback, and the charging fullback, the Brown team of this November unlike some of old, has manpower pretty much on a par with the best in New England. Last Saturday in New Haven's saucer, Rip Engle's solid line, averaging 203 from end to end, kept Yale's Nadherny and Jackson under control and had some observers comparing them to Brown's Iron Men of decades...
Farmers who keep pigs must detect a familiar note in many of the objections to the food saving plan [TIME, Oct. 20]. Hogs always raise hell when you push them away from the trough...
...down dully on the litter of broken bottles, rocks, clubs and park railings strewn over the road. Little pools of blood and dirt had collected, here & there, in the gutters. Walking home down the Champs Elysées, where nightclubs were open and operating as usual, I heard a familiar voice near me: "Chauds, les Marrons, chauds!" It was Anatole, back in business. The little men of Paris were carrying on. All over France, the little men, who detest and fear the violence which goes with all kinds of political extremism, were carrying on, and hoping for the best...
...familiar face of Enrico Caruso, in silver, turned up in the family-circle lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House. In a flurry of bulb-popping, the late great tenor's widow, Mrs. Dorothy Caruso (who had two unhappy marriages after Caruso's death, resumed the name of her devoted "Rico" after each divorce), presented a heroically scowling bust of the tenor, flanked by four full-blown little nymphs, to the Met's General Manager Edward Johnson...
...best British films, in short, have been very good, but they have been almost exclusively concerned with revealing English life and virtue. When they have strayed from familiar surroundings they have been occasionally successful as in 'Great Expectations," but more often they have not as witness "Cacsar and Cleopatra" "Men of Two Worlds," or the current "Beware of Pity." The same indictment cannot be applied to the fine picture that now and then rears up out of Hollywood's commercial quicksand. "The Informer," "Emile Zola," "Ninotchke," or "The Good Earth," support this view. American film makers have many times examined...