Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their contempt for the whole proceedings by singing of the things they were going to do to old Eli the Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash punctuating the tune of a familiar football song...
...days before publicity because a business and before notoriety became as interesting as fame, popular imagination was fired by ballads or sagas on legends that passed from mouth to mouth. Now that pink newspapers and catchy captions have taken upon themselves the task of transmitting popular legends at length, the real digest of the news is broadcast in single words and short phrases. Thus Col. Lindbergh's exploit of last spring has become included in all its glory in the monosyllable...
...Anshe Ernes Congregation, Chicago, was to broadcast (through the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ) music, chanting, ram's horning and sermons of its Rosh Hashonah (Jewish New Year's) services this week. ¶The Jewish Tribune, weekly magazine, learned in editorials, popular in text, in its Rosh Hashonah number issued last week, started a contest among its readers to decide "which Jew, by his service to America, deserves to be honored with a statue. ... No Jew has been nationally honored by the community for his services to America. In New York City, the Jews number about...
...exception to this rule is found in the poetry of Humbert Wolfe, a young Briton whose work has actually inserted itself into the lists of best sellers. Possessed of a dexterous though partly imitative technique, it has none of the raucous and hurtling sentiment which usually gives poetry a popular appeal. The music of his verses is delicate and blurred; his gentle comments on saints and harlots, soldiers and nuns, unlike his previous satire, seems too wan to provoke a storm either of praise or censure...
...disconcerting way of appearing side by side with the mightiest deeds in the history of the great. It may be purely a weakness for the anecdote, but more often it is the recognition of an intrinsic merit of personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable set of Harvard crockery. Both will...