Word: familiars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tunes of Irving Berlin, Alice Faye and Ethel-Merman vocalize their way through a familiar but amusing version of boy-meets-boy-loses-boy-gets in the current screening of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" at the University. The story itself, showing the incredible ups and downs of show business, covers the last quarter of a century in an interesting if superficial picture of the times...
...familiar Schrafft quality right here in Harvard Square. Special luncheons and suppers served daily...
...Henri. Among the best things in Gerstle Mack's book are excerpts from young Lautrec's whimsical convalescent letters, a quaint "Zig Zag Journal'1 he kept at 16, his first sassy comments on art exhibitions in Paris. But as Lautrec became mature and bitterly familiar with his deformity, the pleasures of cafe conversation took the place of writing. This made things difficult for his biographer...
...familiar activity of U.S. housing administrations is slum clearance. Last week several of them got together for their first experiment in slum prevention. Said Fred W. Catlett of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board: "Home owners with expanding incomes and growing families are continually deserting old, established neighborhoods and moving farther and farther from the downtown business areas. The older inhabitants are replaced by those living on a lower economic scale. Rents decrease, values fall and houses are allowed to deteriorate because the income will not support proper expenditures for repair." In an attempt to counteract this, FHLBB, its subsidiary...
...Author Agar's standards, Jackson, Lincoln, Bryan and La Follette were Jeffersonians, and Franklin Roosevelt is one; Calhoun, Jeff Davis and many a later politician who considered himself a Jeffersonian made principles of what were only methods to the sage of Monticello. Tracing this division through the familiar story of Jackson and the Bank of the United States, to Bryan's part in Wilson's nomination, Author Agar often wanders far afield but enlivens his account with pungent political sermons. Indifference, self-seeking, the vulgarization of politics outrage him most, and the apathy of citizens before political...