Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Representative Upshaw eulogize Abraham Lincoln and Prohibition; laughed as he brandished a whiskey bottle (empty) and a Bible. Said he: "Let the President and the Vice President, every member of the Cabinet, and the popular Speaker of the House, all openly and unitedly announce that they will not attend any function-social, fraternal, commercial, or diplomatic- where intoxicants are served. This would give a moral thrill that would electrify the world...
...Popular, able, Mayor William E. Dever, Democrat...
...visions of sunshine and palm-trees and tinkly temple-bells. From Kipling, Jack London, Stevenson and Conrad, we have gleaned bits of tropic lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire results of a coincidence of man, woman and a bottle of gin in a languorons tropical setting, with a steady shower of rain out-side...
Walter Lippman in the current "Atlantic Monthly" analyses the causes of American political indifference. He finds that they are based on the facts that the United States is prosperous, therefore uncritical, that the parties do not represent popular interest, that fundamental issues are avoided in politics. He need not have gone so deeply into the question. The spectacle of men who are supposed to represent the interests of a nation acting in a manner which on the street would make them liable to arrest is not edifying. Nor is it surprising that a well-fed public does not pay much...
...Choose an ambassador for his wife" is a saw not applicable to William Phillips. He has himself charm enough for the most difficult social encounter. "He is the only man," said one traveler, "who could be popular in Europe with a cross-eyed termagant for a wife." It happens, however, that Mr. Phillips, having reached age 32, married some years ago a Manhattan girl (Caroline Astor Drayton) whose charm matched his, and whose beauty outshone his manners...