Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfit for a high administrative position, such as he now occupies. I write this with great regret, because he is a gallant officer with an excellent War record, but his record since the War has been such that he has forfeited the good opinion of those who are familiar with the facts and who desire to promote the best interests of national defense...
With the mild immorality of these familiar practices,--as a matter affecting only individual ethics, there is perhaps no occasion for concern. They are part of a time-honored code in colleges; they even find their parallel in the world at large. But in the mass, they strike an unpleasant note; the well-known subterfuges by which they are effected lead to a distinctly distasteful state of affairs. The University has established a rule concerning attendance at the last class before and the first after a vacation; in its effectiveness can it find its only excuse for existence; with...
...familiar it all sounds! And there is another interesting touch contributed by Mr. Masterman: "The chief opposition rally has been made by the fundamentalists, who, to counter the lubrications of successful authors, have been enlisting successful business men. Thus we read of the manager of a drygoods store asserting that If she Bible is not true we are done for!; and the manager of the southern railway affirms his belief in Fundamentalism in words that might have been used by the late William J. Bryan...
Speaking in French, the official language of the assembly, Sir Austen first read a greeting from King George, and then lauded extempore the now familiar "spirit of Locarno."Mr. Baldwin, ever at ease, tilted back his chair and hooked his thumbs in the sleeveholes of his vest. One by one, the plenipotentiaries rose and spoke for a moment on the great step toward peace they were about to take...
...ghost story that is, and isn't, is cast into a novel frame by Mr. Robert Pope in "The House of the Two Colonels". The story itself is too familiar in its general outlines to be entirely successful, and too unimportant to deserve much praise. Nevertheless, there is a moment of suspense that is worth reading for; that is, if you are not tired of haunted houses, and you ought never...