Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme drags up for reinspection the familiar history of the prostitute. As usual, she falls in love with an estimable youth who is ignorant of her profession. As usual, he finds out. As usual, she kills herself...
Nothing is as stupid as recounting the plot of a mystery play, and "In the Next Room" is still familiar to many theatre goers because of its recent run at the Selwyn Theatre. But familiar or not, it is distinctly worth an evening's time, even in the mid-year examination period, for any one who is interested in Mr. Collier's progress in his dramatic career...
...There is now hardly a woman, man or child in the country who is not familiar with the name...
...that has often been quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle." And further on, middle of next column, you repeat: "Mr. Rockefeller is familiar with the parable about the rich...
...Wild Asses" is described in a preliminary announcement as a "novel of undergraduate life at Harvard University". The situations are all laid before the familiar background of the Yard and Harvard Square. The author takes up "parties, love affairs, crap games and philosophic discussions," whether in that order or not is left unexplained by the announcement...