Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Detroit press discovered a child prodigy. Youngest of a Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also...
...year ago Harvard University was booed by liberals for firing two popular young economics instructors, John Raymond Walsh and Alan Richardson Sweezy. Messrs. Walsh & Sweezy were leaders of the Harvard branch of the American Federation of Teachers, an A. F. of L. union. Last week, with traditional indifference, Harvard braved a rightist storm by appointing to its staff a self-declared Communist...
...cheers of the frenetic fans were an unfamiliar sound to the ears of squat, hardworking, 43-year-old Bill Stewart. Professionally accustomed to gibes and catcalls during a decade of umpiring, his nearest approach to popular acclaim was that, while coaching baseball at Boston University, he had made a catcher out of famed Mickey Cochrane. And Manager Stewart was a hero only for a day. After being kissed on his bald head last week by each of the whooping Black Hawks, who got $1,000 apiece for their victory, Hero Stewart went home. There he packed his blue-serge suits...
...time after the Great Depression, Poet Archibald MacLeish, growing more and more shocked by contemporary U. S. social and economic conditions, decided that his poetry had better get busy and do something about them. To carry out this decision, which seemed to necessitate writing poems about matters of immediate popular concern, Poet MacLeish began to top-work his poetry on to popular art forms. First sizable sprout to grow from this top-working was Panic (1935), a graft of lyric poetry on the drama. This verse-play depicted a scene from the currently-expected crack-up of what Communists call...
Less substantial but funnier, Daughters and Sons varies the conventional family novel by concentrating three squabbling generations under one roof. The Ponsonbys consist of a hard-bitten old grandmother, her bludgeoning spinster daughter, her son (a popular author on the down grade), his five children. Isolated in a big country house, the Ponsonby children while away their leisure making dirty cracks about each other, unite in making dirty cracks about their grandmother, who repays them with interest. All hands join in deviling the succession of governesses. For awhile it looks as though they have met their match when one ruthlessly...