Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both your houses" remark (see p. 11), he attacked recent strikes caused by political squabbles, called inter-union conflicts "unjustified," said they served to "give arms to our enemies." With a warning to American, British, oil and mining interests, Rightist sympathizers, that the revolution would proceed despite "discontent at popular conquests," the President sat down. As he did so a cameraman tumbled off the platform. Superstitious Congressmen muttered among themselves that this was a bad omen...
...named Parker H. French, whom he sent to San Francisco to recruit more men, to dicker with Vanderbilt's agents for a loan. When Walker should have executed French, he executed instead an innocent hostage. Native support almost completely vanished when he followed this up by shooting a popular enemy leader. But a worse mistake, even worse than sending French to Washington as Nicaraguan minister, was to revoke the Vanderbilt concession in favor of that hard-fisted financier's double-crossing colleagues, to whom Vanderbilt wrote: "I won't sue you, for the law is too slow...
...death inspired more than 200 elegies exhausting the superlatives of friends and enemies alike. W?here biographers have struck a snag has been in trying to make convincing a personality to justify these tributes. Latest try is Alfred H. Bill's Astrophel. Written in a half-scholarly, half-popular vein, it adds only the most cautious speculation to the known facts; its main contribution is a closely-woven background of the times, the author's enthusiasm for his subject...
Below are pictured four of the most popular men in the Senior Class, judged by the number of their classmates who returned them to the Student Council in the top six last spring...
...July 19, bigfooted, popular Pitcher Gomez beat Cleveland for his 13th victory of the season. Superstitious, he believed that the 13th win might be a hard one to add to. A believer in astrology, he regarded the approach of Finsler's Comet with apprehension ("Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together"). His mother, of whom he was very fond, lay ill in Rodeo, Calif. Four times he had tried to win his 14th game and failed-twice against Chicago, once against Detroit, once against Philadelphia. He had sped by plane to California for a bedside...