Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayors are memorable in proportion to the extent that they represent the popular conception of their cities. Should the Lord Mayor of London visit the U. S., none would be content if he failed to take with him some prancing coach horses, a mace, a port complexion and some coldstream guards. The mayor of Stamboul would have to produce a hookah out of his silk bloomers. By what tokens should the mayor of New York be known abroad? Tiaras, tabloids, and ticker tape? Chewing gum, checked suits, charged water...
Crown. Anton Smetona, popular father of his country and the first and present President of the republic of Lithuania (founded 1918), politely, firmly, magnificently refused the offer of a golden crown last week. A group of tenacious monarchists raised the flag of royalism, which has been a dead emblem many years, because they felt that the country would prosper, as it did of old, under the sway of an autocrat and because they thought that the President, with themselves as his courtiers and advisors, could raise the standard of Lithuania to its highest eminence...
...concession to brew raki was given originally to a Polish group, but because the public complained that it was adulterated and caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey and partly in Iraq, a bold band of brigands swooped down upon the lowland villages, terrorizing the inhabitants. Then, gathering up their loot the lusty robbers staggered back into their impregnable fastnesses. In Angora...
...Raki, or arrack, is a popular, potent, gin-like beverage, made from plums. When mixed with water it becomes milky and much like absinthe. It is the favorite drink of the Orient...
...dozen years since one of the most popular young men in the U. S. began to visit around the country, at first in very grown-up long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...