Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French and most other European Governments have "secret funds" which it is perfectly legal for the Premier to expend in absolutely any manner he thinks fit-indeed, no Frenchman would be surprised to learn that plug-uglies of the Left were receiving wads of banknotes from the Popular Front Cabinet today to "keep order"-but that any onetime Premier should so utterly lack discretion as to blurt out brutal facts of this kind and give the politicians' show away, last week astonished Europe. But there was no outcry that French Democracy should no longer employ "secret funds" since these...
...action opens on Christmas Day and carries us through New Year's Eve at a time eighteen months after the beginning of the next world war. True to popular expectations, Germany, Italy and Japan are fighting England, France, and Russia. America is observing a costly neutrality, which is dragging her into demoralization and depression. According to the Christmas sermon of a sententious ex-senator, the nation is to be seen in minature in the family, particularly in the Garrison family, consisting of the aforesaid two brothers and sister-in-law, and several lesser figures. John Garrison runs the family business...
...bringing voices up from his stomach without seeming to move his lips. His success is demonstrated in dummy Charlie McCarthy who crows, firsts, chuckles, sneers and whines over an NBC network every Sunday. He gets 100 letters a week. Never was a four-foot piece of Michigan pine more popular...
...streetcars were used Saturday to transport about 26,000 fans to the Yale-Dartmouth game, and they ran at one-minute intervals before and after the game. Although more and more people are going to the stadium in their own automobiles, the street car is still the most popular mode of transportation...
These films are a logical sequence to the excellent series of American motion pictures that were presented by the energetic Film Society last year, and they were so popular both in the afternoon and evening showings, that many more applied for membership in the Society than could be contained in the Geographical Building, where they were given...