Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evening World says flatly, "It is incredible that any people, not abject slaves under the rule of tyrants, will tolerate such infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning that chemists would be arrested if they gave analyses of alcoholic beverages, aroused even more adverse comet...
...contributions must be of the following types of literature: the brief familiar essay, from 500 to 1000 words, the informal personal sketch, from 300 to 600 words, the tabloid book review, from 50 to 100 words, the humorous or satirical sketch, from 100 to 300 words, the sonnet, 14 lines, the rondeau, 13 lines, the triolet, 8 lines, humorous verse, not more than 20 lines and not free verse...
Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find...
...loves, preferring to play around with streetsheiks. There are the boy friends, some good, some less good, who make their proper and im proper proposals. Finally the older sister, following the advice supplied by Miss Fairfax, gets her man. Chicago. Roxie Hart is the prototype of those curious but familiar public idols, the little blonde murderesses. After she has killed her man, Roxie is frightened for a few minutes. But what with the excitement of telling the reporters how she came to do it, the delights of seeing her name right up in big black letters on yellow or pink...
...centuries full of a familiar ebb and change, and, like all, exciting and beautiful...