Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Show. Adjoining the meeting hall was a medical exhibit. Medical literature, pharmaceutical products, surgical supplies, health foods vied for attention. Outstanding among the popular shows was the new cure for hay fever. Like a kitchen stove it looked, with a pipe leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...
Navesink Lights, by Adelaide Morris, is a shiny landscape, containing a bathing pavilion, bridge, hill, road, river, castle, and autocar, cleverly executed in the suave and polished "naïve" manner, now vastly popular in Germany...
...Manhattan last week R. H. Macy & Co. made for TIME a list of its best-selling popular sheet music...
Those gentlemen who find it amusing or profitable to judge each race by an absolute standard, and call one people art-loving, another frivolous, a third conservative--and such persons include most authors, from newspaper correspondents to popular biographers--have had rather a hard task in re-cutting and pasting together post-war Germany to make it fit into its pigeon-hole. In the war years, and previous to them, it was easy to list the Germans as militaristic, servile to rank and title, and later bloodthirsty committers of atrocities. But the last decade has found, in spite...
...Popular songs arr by Rice