Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sarajevo is recalled, and the prospect of war, if not imminent, seems at least possible. The Soviet is not enjoying success, the diplomatic rupture with England and the difficulties in the Far East have not made matters easy for the Russian government, and reports from Moscow hint that popular feeling regards the assassination as part of a concerted campaign against the Soviet...
...best feminine institutions is nothing more than a farce, it would be too sanguine to suppose that even the top rank of men's universities are above criticism. Unfortunately for Miss Warfield, however, she does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate, of culture; learns a few catch phrases to repeat whenever a subject is mentioned about which educated persons are supposed to be informed; and, largely as a result...
...time, submerged as the student is with the final obituaries of his present courses and the preliminary salvos to those of the future, it is not too soon to cast one's eyes toward next year's experiment, an experiment which has fortunately received comparatively little attention from the popular press but one which, were all its consequences realized, is little less than revolutionary. The respite of classes which will take effect before midyear and final examinations in the college year 1927-1928, accepted by the majority of undergraduates under the vague head of "improvements" will...
...ticket sale for the annual classday spread to be held from 5.30 to 7.30 o'clock on June 21 at the Phillips Brooks House is well up to the 1926 average. Last year the affair proved to be very popular, well over 400 persons attending. In case of good weather the spread will be held in the space between Holden Chapel and the Phillips Brooks House, which is available for the first time in several years. If it should rain, the whole affair will be moved indoors...
Then Admiral Dewey began to make what the public called "mis-takes." When questioned about the home which popular subscription was building for him in Washington, he said that he wanted only a modest house with a small dining-room seating 18 persons. . . . At 62, he married and deeded the house to his wife. The public became as spiteful as a cast-off mistress. . . . The public was ready to jeer in 1900 when Admiral Dewey responded to pressure and naively announced that he was willing to run for President. Said he: "Since studying this subject, I am convinced that...