Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are a number of reasons why this greying ramrod of a public servant has waked up, a popular one being that his prosecution of the oil gangsters excited the admiration of potent political patronesses, such as Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, president of the Women's National Democratic Club, who in turn have taught Senator Walsh to appreciate himself. Another theory is that, after his wife died in 1917 towards the end of his first term in the Senate, he turned to politics with fresh concentration as other bereaved men will turn to business, pleasure or a new wife...
...worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...
...soldier who achieved these things was born in Naples, his father a commoner, his mother a baroness. Never rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than...
...masses and keeping close to the masses. . . . All who have Fascismo at heart wish to create a regime whose ruling class can always draw from the people the men necessary to its constant renewal. . . . The problem of government cannot be solved by trusting in the illusory dogma of popular sovereignty, but it can be solved by the wise choice of a few leading statesmen...
...California to find gold-mad whitemen, redmen, yellowmen, blackmen, and himself the owner of the golden Mariposa veins. His wife came by boat and soon their home was filled with "hundred-pound buckskin sacks, worth not far from $25,000 each." California's richest man and most popular idol, Frémont was elected U. S. Senator. He spent little time in Washington and was defeated for a second term. So he took a trip to Europe with Jessie...