Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college. The optimistic and benevolently humanitarian view is that such is not the case and that opportunities for further education, no matter how general or wasteful, are never to be closed to any class or type of mind. The other view is more depressing and, at present, more popular with educational leaders. It would have been interesting and even informative to have secured. President Angell's attitude What he has offered is to the point in so far as the ornaments of his theme are concerned; and if he has omitted the discussion of the most vital portion...
Five separate divisions comprise the organization of the Instrumental Clubs. These are the Banjo, Mandolin, and Vocal Clubs, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Speciality Division. The Banjo and Mandolin Clubs are the two oldest organizations, and are devoted to the playing of marches, popular tunes, and light classical selections. In order to make a more balanced program, however, the remaining divisions were added one after the other, four years ago. The Vocal Club, the first to join the two older clubs, is devoted to the singing of light numbers, college songs, and the like...
...certain quarters that there was one undergraduate mood or type which was receiving no adequate expression. The answer would appear to be found in the Hound and Horn, whose bay is akin to a yelp from the Village and whose blast is more dulcet than shrill. Not a popular magazine in content, in fact apparently somewhat proud of its aloofness, its appeal is directed to the denizens of the candle-lit tea rooms, those flery spirits to whom James Joyce is an immortal and Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot minor prophets. The sincerity of this public compensates...
...Moscow the architecture of American pyramided skyscrapers is imitated, and the revolving street signs for the control of traffic remind the American visitor of Broadway. The newest architecture, sculpture and painting show preoccupation with mechanical forms hardly to be matched in the United States, and magazines similar to Popular Mechanics are to be seen on all newsstands...
Fighting Lacoste in the 1927 finals, Tilden seemed burned out by the frantic rush and smash of trying to defend the Davis Cup (TIME, Sept. 19). Gloom shrouded experts, patriots. Tilden, dogged, forced Lacoste to long deuce sets. Never a popular champion, the greatest ovation of his history drummed into his ears as he walked off the court loser to Lacoste...