Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inexhaustible fund of stories, suited to all climes, ages, and moods, makes him one of the most congenial of the Cambridge newspapermen. It is not so much the stories which he tells, as those which he might tell, which renders him a popular speaker in any gathering of the Fourth Estate. His popularity with the fraternity is increased by his ability to be, on occasion, a very good listener...
...attended his six Bach recitals last year, given on six consecutive days, had heard people so far forget themselves as to cheer him-and Bach. Some went to hear him for the first time-a man who, according to Critic Lawrence Gilman, has made All-Bach recitals as popular in the British Isles as cricket matches, a musician with a keen enough sense of humor to tell on himself of the moist night in South Africa when he slipped off his stool and under the piano. They saw him come out on the stage, a little man, one-third fore...
...Pacific Coast, called it his own. Few had heard the name Gallo, fewer still had faith in his venture. But the San Carlo Company prospered, played a week here, three nights there in U. S. cities that had no opera, made a name for the impresario who could give popular-priced performances and succeed. Last week the San Carlo Company began a two-weeks' engagement in Manhattan, not in the old Century Theatre that had been its former host but in a new theatre with GALLO blazed across the front. Critics attending the opening had kinder words for Impresario...
...ever attempted in historical writings. Mark Sullivan has once more come forth with a volume which psycho-analyzes in terms of newspaper headlines, once current fads and fancies, forgotten manias, previous eras of the United States. He has written not exactly a history but rather the evolution of a popular mentality. Having begun this peculiar method of examination in "The Turn-Of-A-Century" the first part of that work called in entirely "Our Times", he continues it in the second part, "America Finding Herself...
...cost of reproducing the elm, according to Blanchard, will not exceed $1000. The other feature of the memorial in the event of the passage of the bill, would be determined by the Art Commission, and the cost of the whole defrayed in part by the city, the state, and popular subscription