Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plume, but he does have a bird's foot with distended claws at the extremity of a sort of dragon's leg attached to his body. This foot is held angrily below his open jaws. These would not be recognizable as a snake's jaws by a person unfamiliar with Maya art, which advanced over a course of conventionalization that took it to the pole opposite that of such realistic portrayal as is now all the rage in the literature of the United States...
There is nothing so unfamiliar as this familiar world of ours in the all-transforming hands of Shaw. And there is no play of Shaw's in which the world appears more elusive, more charmingly decadent, and less itself than in "Heart break House." The Repertory players enjoy the privilege of giving the play its first staging in Boston...
...carpet slippers." He then glimpsed "an efficient, snappy-looking officer" of Marshal Feng's army seated on a bench in a special compartment, and was called in when the officer needed a corkscrew. Thereafter they sat toping and smoking for some time, although "of course [Mr. Morley was] not unfamiliar with the tradition that the soldiers of the 'Christian General' neither smoke nor drink...
...American Sociological Society. He has written books, Honest Dollars, Sin and Society, Latter Day Sinners and Saints, The Russian Soviet Republic. But Wisconsin has a brand new president of whom it expects much, Dr. Glenn Frank, lately editor of the Century. And Dr. Frank is still on unfamiliar ground. He has been going cautiously, observingly; has been noncommittal in deed and statement, so far. He has said he is "willing to be reactionary as the Tsar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday," if facts warrant (TIME, Nov. 2). What facts lie behind Professor Ross...
Last week the New Society of Artists opened its seventh exhibition in Manhattan. The place of honor was given to George W. Bellows' unfamiliar War-piece, "The Massacre"-civilian figures huddled in a blur of terror before a firing squad. Stirling Calder, friend of Bellows, exhibited a half-length portrait of the painter in bronze...