Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the crossing of the line ceremonies Cadet Staggs was hailed before the bar of justice of His Royal Majesty Neptunus Rex and accused of winning the $100,000 Old Gold Prize, to which he pleaded guilty. He was then given the blindfold test of popular brands to see whether he knew an Old Gold when he smoked one. He failed most miserably, picking a Camel...
...Deal and how the country liked it. Last week, back in Hyde Park, it was clear that whatever else he had taken in, Franklin Roosevelt had thoroughly absorbed one thing from the huge crowds that had turned out to see and hear him: assurance that he was as popular as ever in the Northwest...
...weekend of the Dartmouth game Winthrop will hold a dance for the pleasure of House members and their friends. Don Gahan and his orchestra, popular band for several seasons, will play for the Puritans. Chairman of the Dance Committee is Eric T. Clark...
Representing the contemporary U. S. scene are William Corcoran's This Man, Joe Murray and Theodore Strauss's Night at Hogwallow. Both books and authors have working-class backgrounds. Tough, popular, sentimental hero of This Man, Joe Murray falls hard for a beautiful, chaste Polish girl, blames himself when she is run over by a train. Marrying without love, he exorcises the dead girl's memory, realizes his wife's worth only after a too jauntily told, bitter period of Unemployment and bumming. Night at Hogwallow is a bloodcurdling first work 'aid in the deep...
...settlement houses sprinkled in Greater Boston and Cambridge recruits are needed to coach athletics, hobby groups and debating societies. Basketball, wrestling, tumbling, and boy scout work have been popular in the past...