Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Page was too fond of hobnobbing with British aristocrats. Page had been born in a North Carolina hamlet; the gaudy trappings of royalty naturally made a powerful impression upon him. Things went on swimmingly, almost deliriously, for a year. He went everywhere, got to know everybody, was soon on familiar terms with dukes, princesses and members of the Cabinet...
...abandoned s practice of reproducing, under its title-head, a portrait, by some substantial master-folowed instead the example of The Dial, The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review by printing there its table of contents. There was little to remind the twitching ear-tabbed centenarian of the cover familiar to his halcyon days - the two roco pedestals that framed a page made acceptable for mid-centry boudoirs with a trinity of cherubs, two scattering flowers while the third his little round buttocks eclipsing the north pole of a small world wafted soapbubbles above the legend...
After the final curtain fell on the first performance, Miss Pinchot and Lady Diana were called out again and again. Miss Pinchot, a slender, vigorous nun, was a rare contrast to the stolid Teutonic actress Sari Fedak, whose interpretation is more familiar to European audiences...
...following quotation from Whitman is characteristic and anyone familiar with his writings will, I think, like myself, resent the statement on Page 3 that he was an atheist...
...West matches William Johnston, whose defeat on an off-day by the dependable tennis of Dr. George King (TIME, Aug. 10) caused many sport enthusiasts to proclaim him a doddering curmudgeon, went out to contend for a place on the U. S. team with Vincent Richards. Playing with the familiar wizardry that has made him, for many years, the most popular player in tennis, he met Richards' cannonball service with flashing drives, confused his net game with precise lobs, fought through an exhausting match to win, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-8, 9-7. The West...