Word: familiars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar faces will be missing when track operations start next year. Bob Gammons, Fred Ulen, Franny King (the game number two quarter-miler), Bob Haydock, Al Hanlon, Ros Brayton, and Fulton Cahners will have graduated. Chick Oldfather is transferring to No-breaks...
Most of the songs U. S. folklorists collect are regional curiosities or quaint survivals that sound strange to the average American. Overlooked by such specialists is the great mass of songs the average American sings, songs that are as familiar as bathtubs or chewing gum. These songs go out of fashion into limbo. But they are authentic U. S. folk music, nonetheless...
...command of form and gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music of the age of Bach and Handel...
...apartment in Manhattan. When 29 ships and 10,000 officers & men of the U. S. Navy hove in for the World's Fair last fortnight, ex-Yeoman Husted took out his faded blue uniform, adorned it with new buttons, new stripes. By a kind of wishful magic familiar to more men than would ever admit it, John Husted then became "Lieut. Blish C. Hills, U. S. S. Anderson." On Riverside Drive by the Hudson, he strolled with others in blue, bandied glances with the passing girls, was casually curt with mere sailors...
...only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function in society (and it does have a function) is by being placed where people gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal, not a hushed, tone of voice. By introducing it to more familiar and pleasant surroundings it is not meant, however, the people should lounge around and "absorb" art while drinking Chianti in a smoke-field room. That a happy medium between the Bohemian aesthete and the straight-laced scholar can be reached is being very successfully proven by Leverett House. Its persistent...