Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, alumni and friends of Rollins College met for dinner at the Machinery Club, Manhattan. At their head was Rex Beach, another gentleman who has turned his two-fisted, eminently practical attention to things so various as gold-digging in Alaska and writing popular fiction in the U. S. Mr. Beach lately acquired large tracts of rich black soil near winter Park, Fla. He studied at Rollins College from 1891 to 1896 and is president and guiding spirit of Rollins alumni...
...interested in wall paper under which cockroaches and other room vermin made their nests. Cockroaches for a long time were thought by so able a scientist as Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen, to be a cause of cancer (TIME, Nov. 8). Also, Paris green, once popular for killing cockroaches, bed bugs and like triflers, is made of arsenic...
Balloon jumping is already a popular sport among the English gentry, and is attracting the attention of playful Long Islanders...
Prize fighting is popular because, watching it, civilized people are vicariously purged of their primitive inclinations. Another need that it satisfies becomes evident, not only in the prefight betting, but in the event the outcome is disputable. Onlookers can then enter actual combat, with their opinions. In the Stone Age, a fight was simply a fight, with no nonphysical exchanges before or after. Today a fight stimulates the popular art of debate. Psychologically speaking, the meeting of the country's two second-best physical fighters last week in the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, was one of the most successful affairs...
...American Tobacco Co. makes "Lucky Strike," "Herbert Tareyton," "Melachrino," "Omar" and "Pall Mall" brands of cigarets. "Lucky Strike" is its best advertised and most popular brand; it sells for 15c a package of 20. The others are more expensive. Straw-tipped Melachrinos sell for 35c a package...