Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even a national convention of U. S. postmasters and postal supervisors last week at Niagara Falls, N. Y., made much popular impression. Newspapers that will lavish column after column upon Moose. Shriner, Grotto, Lion, Rotary, Yahoo, Wahoo and Hoohoo conventions, gave their old friends the postmasters scarcely a mention. Even the presence in Buffalo and the speech of Postmaster General Harry S. New were virtually ignored by local newspapers...
...complete Harvardian orchestra playing under the direction of Roy Lamson '29, will give a varied program of popular music and classical adaptations on Sunday evening, October 2. This concert will inaugurate the Sunday evening entertainments which the graduate secretaries of the Union plan for every Sunday during the coming year. It has long been a custom of the Union management to give the men a special steak dinner on Sunday evening. Nearly 400 men come and it is the purpose of the Sunday entertainments to furnish a pleasant hour immediately after supper. These entertainments will combine music with moving pictures...
...expect to see him repudiated by the Democrats at the primaries. Certainly Missouri cannot afford to be represented by such a marplot."- Now in Kansas, once a strong Wilson state, U. S. Senator Reed praised Woodrow Wilson, implied his association with the onetime President in the passage of a popular law. Newsgatherers smiled as they wired the material out of which editors could snip sharp editorials...
...Gases. Has science invented any gas with which bombing planes could annihilate a whole community? Certainly not, said Major General Amos Alfred Fries, chief of the U. S. Army Chemical Warfare Service. Another popular fallacy: that gas wounds form the basis of later disease. Yet gas is the greatest casualty-pro-ducer in war, Soldier Fries explained, because its victims require from two to three persons each to care for them, "while statistics show that one man can dispose of two fatal casualties. . . . Wounded men are many times more a burden than the dead. Gas is the only instrument...
...Author. Mr. Oppenheim modestly disclaims credit for his so popular work and pretends that he does not aim to please. He says: "I do not know how a novel will develop when I begin it. I get a vision of about two good characters?the man, he's the main thing, and the woman, very secondary. These two elements, together with my first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them...