Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team will be augmented by S. Sheldon Judson, teaching fellow in Geography, Louis P. Du Pree '50, and Carleton L. Pierpont '51. Bryan brings to the expedition an intimate knowledge of ice packs, while Movius is familiar with the relics left by past civilizations...
This is only the beginning, there are many more studies yet to be heard from. The tune the dropping coins in the box-office till is playing is a familiar one: "Johnny Get Your...
...Glib Proposals." Dewey's speeches followed a familiar pattern. He concentrated on belaboring "this incredible Administration of ours," on warning: "Let's be sure we spend our money like hard-headed Americans instead of soft-headed saps." Time & again he thwacked Harold Stassen's ill-considered plan to outlaw the Communist Party. Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial...
...forget this Socialist Government of Great Britain. It is the government of Great Britain, and you do not criticize it. But when you get back, you make up for lost time." Author-Orator Churchill will also have something to say in the twelfth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, due in November-60 entries on his debut (Franklin Roosevelt's total will rise from...
...most familiar complaint of modern composers is that they don't get a hearing. On that score, Igor Stravinsky has little to complain of. In the past month, packed houses in Manhattan had heard everything from his popular Petrouchka (1911) to his dusty-dry Symphony in C (1940). Even his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex had been uncovered for the first time in 17 years. Bobbing, crouching and flapping his arms like a grotesque little bird, Composer Stravinsky had conducted several performances of his music himself...