Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this man a Moses, fitted to lead the people out of a wilderness which is his own creation, only? Is he of the George Washington type, as counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics...
...course, I do not have access to all of the company with which the Senator from New Jersey seems to be familiar, because as I understood him, he said that it is almost impossible to go into company without some one inquiring as to 'who has the supply?' Well, I have not had that experience, I regret to say, or do say without regret [laughter]; and if the Senator has had that experience and has been in such company he has had an experience which has not come...
Turkish Atrocities of the perennially familiar type were reported by Laidoner, whose lack of sentimentality or easily shocked squeamishness is ably attested by the fact that he once ordered 130 Esthonian Communists shot in a batch because they were about to start a revolution...
...they whirled home through the underground, the purchasers of this rare pennyworth perused a little story, in the now familiar vein, which described the adventures of a boy with the kings, queens and knaves of a pack of cards. In the end all the royal cards are burnt, and this denouement seemed commonplace enough to most of the stolid Londoners. Here and there, however, there was one who remembered that...
Many people are familiar with the name of General Harry Lovejoy Rogers, aide to General Pershing and onetime Quartermaster General of the A. E. F. Most people know that last week in Philadelphia this eminent soldier died of heart disease. The following headline met the eyes of many thousand intelligent readers who propped the New York Times against their breakfast water carafes on the morning...