Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least I thought so. But the vote was against me and those who thought with me, as the people before have indicated that they sometimes differed with me. They did then. Now, as all good citizens should, I claim to play the game. . . . The rules of the game of popular government are that all living under that government must obey. It is not patriotic, it is not sportsmanlike to evade or disobey...
...announced for the first concert of the year: The first movement of a Symphony "Pilgrim" by Paul Allen '04, Rondino by Libelius, "In Silent Forests" by Richard Strauss, Rumanian Folk-Dances by Mela Bartok as well as that orchestral fantasia "Jonny strikes up" by Ernest Krenek, which is so popular in Europe...
Award. To Seventh Heaven (Fox), by popular vote annual medal of Photoplay Magazine for the year's most distinguished picture...
...diamonds. These the steward intended to give to Mclntyre, the policeman; Mclntyre would give them to Frances Landau and she would give them to her father, who would sell them to bedizened women. In addition to the gems, they found the chief steward, a tall, good looking man, popular with all Berengaria passengers, whose income from tips was $15,000 a year, whose valet was Thomas Crossley Earnshaw, who had a wife and a cottage in Southampton, England, and who had been a Cunard employe for 20 years. On the Berengaria, he had managed a glee club as well...
Sport planes on the other hand are cheap, safe and handy, and so are popular. They sell well and have rapidly become a main support of the aviation industry. The limit of their sale (their saturation point...