Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Popular supposition that North Dakota farmers were intensely interested in the McNary-Haugen bill or a substitute measure of farm relief was dispelled by Judge R. G. McFarland, spokesman for a delegation of North Dakota farmers calling upon the President. It is the early completion of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway and the proposed diversion of Missouri River waters for the irrigation of central North Dakota that most concerns North Dakotans, according to Judge McFarland. Though North Dakota has Deen a Non-Partisan League stronghold, the delegation agreed that should the President wish a call from the people...
Africana. Since the tendency is for popular U. S. song & dance to follow closely after the ebullient crooning and outflung gesturing of primitive Africans, it is logical that the Negro revue should crop up more frequently, with growing success. In Manhattan, the nation's theatrical headquarters, only two new shows opened last week. Both were "black-&-tan" affairs. The better, Africana, has to its credit swift changes, amazing doggers, several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms...
Nancy Hoyt, sister of Poetess Elinor Wylie, devotee of the Great God Mencken, is a worldly wise young lady adept at cynical, momentary elegance of thought and phrase. Her previous novel, Roundabout, was not "popular...
Nevertheless, South Dakota has two Senators, equal in the eyes of the law. Last week the missing Senator appeared. He is William H. McMaster and he came bearing no gifts, singing none of the songs now so popular in the Black Hills about Cal and his gal being his pals. The Senator said that farmers were still determined on the passage of the McNary-Haugen bill or its equivalent; that the Republican tariff was not doing the western farmer any good; that it took more than one good year to alleviate farm distress. Most significant, he said that candidates...
...death of President Harding and the advent of President Coolidge the oil scandals slipped out of the headlines and into the courts and, what with the slowness of legal procedure and the public willingness to trade old sensations for new, Teapot Dome and Elk Hills ceased to agitate the popular mind...