Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among his many old supporters who grieved to see so popular and potent a politician in jail was Chase Salmon Osborn, millionaire and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan, who in 1926 appealed...
...Munich, on his incognito arrival, he said to reporters: "In the words of the popular American song, 'Please go away and let me sleep.'" Later, on emerging from the Hofbrauhaus (brewery) he remarked: "I am having my first real rest in Germany." On leaving Munich, in a speech to reporters, he stated that "The German people . . . have a great future before them...
Irving T. Bush, Manhattan industrialist, onetime (1923,24) president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, wrote in Current History for September. "The mandate idea has become so popular that even here in democratic America we are beginning to talk about it, but "if it be applied to Mexico it means that a control of Mexican affairs must be exercised against the will of an established Mexican, government. ... 'A policeman's life is not a happy one.* I believe a League of American Nations, conceived in the right spirit, will do great good. If it means Pan-Americanism...
Professor Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. "The really happy man," he said, "never laughs-or seldom-though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension-and the happy are not overstrung...
...five is Aline MacMahon whose performances in Spread Eagle and Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon satisfied many a theatregoer that her tall, angular person is an almost ideal instrument for fateful, tragic roles. Here, however, she performs commendably as the knowing wife of a popular literatus who is beset by a flapper openly intent upon seducing him into being the victim of her first affaire. Wisely, the wife allows the little one to get just near enough to the danger line to discover that she is better off far away in the arms...