Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposed by the leaders in the powerful States-Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas and most of the farm States-the nomination virtually tore the G. O. P. apart and put it together again with new adjustments, relations and elements. Without a very genuine popular demand it could not have been done. The same factor was, ultimately, the fundamental strength of the Hoover campaign. The unity within the G. O. P. at the campaign's end was undoubtedly the result of circumstances rather than management. Besides Hoover's popular strength, which won him the party...
During pulls in the election returns, the Harvardians, under the direction of Roy Lamson '29, will provide a variety of popular music...
...played by a cast of two persons (Fay Bainter, John Halliday) and a telephone. Its one set is a neatly furnished studio; offstage noises are confined to round knocks upon a resonant downstairs door. Jealousy, which Eugene Walter derived from the French of Louis Verneuil, will be a popular play among little theatre addicts who have no cash...
...last an even better idea was produced. It was decided to have El Ouati run an exhibition race against Johnny Hayes, the man who 20 years ago made the marathon popular just as it is hoped that El Ouati will do now. This exhibition race took place last week; as had been expected, Johnny Hayes did not really try to beat the Algerian but merely trotted around with him once and then watched from the sidelines while El Ouati continued to drum circles on the track. The race did not at tract a crowd; for when people saw "Johnny Hayes...
...duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...