Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country. The Kerensky government had itself been in favor of such a move but intended to effect it in an orderly manner. The Bolsheviks on the other hand advocated immediate seizure and the people were in such a frenzy that the quicker course was by far the more popular. The Reds thus had two trump cards, immediate peace and immediate seizure of land; the people did not support the Bolsheviks because they were such, but because of the two panaceas they offered...
...show-houses themselves. With an increase in the quality of the theatre came naturally films of higher quality. Subjects of more elevating moral status were chosen; higher paid actors and actresses were employed; and the present highest class productions are the result. Today many of yesteryear's popular artists of the stage are now even more popular on the screen...
...Boston audience is the hardest to make laugh of any I have met in years," said Toto, the world's most famous and most popular clown, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "In most places, people laugh at me when I first enter the stage and continue doing so until I leave. However, in Boston, I really have to work to make them even smile...
...Manhattan "hit show" is so popular that tickets within the first five rows centre cannot be purchased a day or less in advance at the smeary-windowed little scalpers' offices along Broadway between 43rd and 45th streets. Scalpers' prices: for a hit drama 88.80 or 59.90 ; for a hit revue $11.00 to §33.00; for a sure fire first night...
...Lampoon, departing from its custom of the last few years, will not issue its April parody of a popular magazine, this year. Instead, the Board will devote its attentions to an issue of poking tun at books and magazines of children's lore...