Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cosmo Hamilton, English novelist and dramatist, will visit Harvard tomorrow afternoon, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Hamilton, the author of many popular novels and the dramatizer of "Pickwick", which will be played in Boston next week, will talk in Sever 11 at 2 o'clock. All students of the University are invited to attend...
...field of Romance Languages has been the third most popular of the 23 fields offered, having maintained an average of 9 per cent for the last three years...
...general tendency to get away from the most popular fields may be noticed in the decrease in percentage drawn by those fields which were once predominant, and increase in nearly all of the less favored fields...
...fact, make a specialty of unfavorable reviews. On the other hand there are magazines, and it must be said that the Bookman with its columns laden with publishers' advertisements is one of them, who are guided chiefly by a sense of respect for what has received the seal of popular approval. That the Bookman manages to guage the merit of this approval before it joins in the chorus of praise is to the credit of its intelligence but detracts from its present thesis. What it is demanding is an American Academy of Literary infamy, and, while there would doubtless...
Lawrence of Arabia. To understand how this young Welshman has become a popular author,? one must recall (TIME, July 26) how he played a leading role in kindling the Arab revolt against Turkey during the World War, and thus furthered the defense of the Suez Canal and the break-up of the Turkish Empire...