Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME made clear that, aside from the resulting and often irrelevant controversy, there was little in the case.oring the elsewhere-popular cartoon. Why don't you run one clever cartoon every week, drawing the material from every section of the country? Surely, a glimpse of what the cartoonists of America are doing deserves place in "The Weekly Newsmagazine...
...backs of so-called American statesmen, I will agree to vote a liberal pension to Wayne Wheeler,* provided he will move out of the country and into some land like Soviet Russia or Mexico, where his peculiar talents will be appreciated and poison gas is more popular...
...election, Mr. Ashley had no idea of running for Mayor. He was 68; he was propped up on pillows in a hospital recovering from two major operations; he had retired from politics five years ago. His friends came to his bedside, pleaded: "Come on, Charlie. . . . You are the most popular man in New Bedford, you have been elected Mayor 22 times...
...entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic form. People marvel sometimes that his well-known song, "At Dawning," which alone paid for his beautiful summer home, was put down on black and white in less than 15 minutes...
...hard time coming. He arranged with the Radio Corporation of America for a combination radio and talking machine week Victor reported earnings of $5,648,446 in the first nine months of 1926ime talking machine, before which Nipper one day squatted inquiringly. Painter Barraud beheld a picture of popular appeal. To brighten up his canvas be borrowed a brass horn from the Gramophone Company Ltd., English subsidiary of Victor, which bought the finished picture, later pensioning Painter Barraud...