Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humor are obscured by the ponderous attempt to make the whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley, England- the "Hanbridge" of his familiar "Five Towns." With a limited education, he descended as a youth upon London and at 21 obtained a situation as a solicitor's clerk. Ten years later his first novel, A Man From the North, was published and, as he puts it, yielded profit sufficient...
Such delay, a particularly familiar growing pain in education, is excusable in this first year of experiment. It is to be hoped, however, that, in the event of a Reading Period in 1929, the University will see fit to anticipate such an annoyance and that the reading lists for that period will all be issued by at least December first...
...place in the country. In a region where life is nothing but beautiful girls in bathing suits, and sunny days, existence was too exquisitely delightful, and people were killing themselves out of pure joy on every hand. But Mr. Linden with remarkable insight saw that strangers who were not familiar with lithographic sections might attribute these wilful demises to other motives, and not settle in the city. So Bernick went to Los Angeles, penned his explanation and turned...
...flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater. M. Maillet was garbed in a coarse white tunic and velvet breeches. The two small Arnaud girls were literally covered with vermin and also dressed in Moorish costume. They stopped crying when familiar French voices soothed them, but asked repeatedly for their mamma and papa. Baroness Steinheil's first request was for a mirror, in front of which she immediately set about powdering & rouging...
...episode is filled with the madness, badness, and sadness in the lives of men who have lived intensely, who have drunk life to the lees. And the account of those lives is none the less interesting because they were lived in our own times, and under circumstances which are familiar...