Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed Lawyer Max D. Steuer for the defense, employed his familiar theatricalities to emphasize the purely inferential nature of the testimony. The late Mr. Phillips, he said, was the true rogue. He had made more than $3,000,000 in graft. "I hope that to God he has made a satisfactory reckoning." screamed Lawyer Steuer. The corpulent Mr. Connolly was pictured as the victim of persecution. But shades of the prison house still gathered about the ex-Borough President...
...Familiar indeed are Damrosch faces. There was Dr. Leopold first, a German Jew who fathered them all along with the Oratorio and Symphony Societies of New York. There are his four children-Teacher Frank (head of the Institute of Musical Art, now associated with the Juilliard Foundation); Pianist Clara, married to Violinist David Mannes and running with him the Mannes School of Music; Pianist Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry T. Seymour); Conductor Walter; Conductor Walter's wife who was Margaret Blaine, daughter of the late Senator James G. Blaine; Conductor Walter's four daughters-Alice (Mrs. Pleasants Pennington), Gretchen...
Both the conference and the dinner were sponsored by educators and meatpackers. Pressing invitations went to prospective speakers, prospective guests. Looking down the tables in the Hotel Astors ballroom, Lord Melchett saw many a familiar face...
...sophisticated observers, familiar with Tycoon Melchett's known passion for consolidation, amalgamation, did believe he had come to the U. S. to tie up his vast British interests with U. S. enterprise. To newsgatherers, he denied all reports of new I. C. I. deals with Allied Chemical in the U. S., or with the mighty German I. G. Farbenindustrie. Most obvious of remaining possibilities, therefore, was a merger of Mond Nickel with the "biggest" International Nickel Co., owning adjoining properties in the Froude Mines of Ontario...
...Thomas was born in Marion, Ohio, and graduated from Princeton in 1905. He then took up social work, and became intimately familiar with the living and working conditions of the laborers. During the World War he took a firm stand for Peace as an active member of the American Union against Militarism. Since then he has run a New York Socialist paper, and been prominent in the organization of the party, and the conducting of strikes against wage cuts and injunctions. He has done a great deal to justify the Socialist party in the opinion of the world...