Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides anecdotes, the book has sketches of such folk-quirky pen-and-inks that bring home to you what a man Orpen is for line as well as for clean modeling and Velasquez-like depths of air. Also among the 34 plates are some very fair reproductions of oils unfamiliar to most U. S. enthusiasts-the leer-eyed Gypsies on the Hill of Howth; two allegories that only a slant-headed little faun from the hills could have painted-Sewing New Seed and A Western Wedding...
Marietta College (Marietta .Ohio) was visited by Vice President Charles G. Dawes, '84, and by Byron Bancroft Johnson, President of the American Baseball League. Crowds cheered as Mr. Johnson received an honorary A.B. degree, allegedly so flustering the proud recipient that he had difficulty in readjusting the unfamiliar academic cap as he retreated to his chair...
...years immediately following the War, credit in the U. S. was none too plentiful and U. S. investors were unfamiliar with foreign loans. As a result, the foreign bond issues brought out during this period bore, as a rule, very high coupon rates...
...University. Those of us who entered Harvard Law School last September were quickly made aware of the fact, and for several months we termed ourselves "Williams in China." Verily if we had gone to Joochow for a postgraduate course we should have found the methods of study no less unfamiliar than those to which we had to adapt ourselves here...
...Familiar Landmarks Unfamiliar...