Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles A. Lindbergh, our courageous young air hero, by placing his pleasing countenance on the cover of your weekly newsmagazine, TIME (the best magazine of its kind published). Who has been more in the public mind of late years, or what picture on your cover could meet with more popular approval, not for what he has accomplished, so much, as for what he is, and for what he stands ? Your articles about him have been excellent, not hysterical, and it is a treat to read such interpretations of a character, so fine and noble, as this young American...
Sirs: Just got through dousing Saphead Dowse [TIME, June 13], when up pops saphead John Muller (TIME, June 20) who forgets that our popular American, Colonel Lindbergh, made the New York-to-Paris flight with only three sandwiches and a bottle of milk.* What German could accomplish this wonderful feat with less than a keg of beer, a barrel of sauerkraut and a whole roast pig ? We Americans do first and talk afterwards, that is why we were so successful in the World...
Thenceforward the Rumanian cycle has moved smoothly-with General Averescu masquerading as a defender of the citizenry but actually obedient to oligarchs Jon and Vintila Bratiano. These gentlemen resolved, recently, to resume power, sensing that popular resentment had guttered down...
Putting her strokes like pistol shots, Miss Wills took the eighth game, the ninth, the tenth. Then she was women's singles champion at Wimbledon-and, by popular consent, women's singles champion of the world. Not since Miss May Sutton (now Mrs. Bundy) won at Wimbledon, 20 years ago, has a U. S. woman worn this supreme tennis crown...
Bottomland. Because Clarence Williams, Negro radio entertainer, is popular "on the air," he thought himself capable of presenting a successful Negro revue. This was a mistake. His show, full of poor white pretensions, ineffective gusto, and brown whirligigs will probably not last long enough to harm greatly his reputation...