Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exposition less brainy sightseers had huge fun bargaining with native bazaar-keepers, sampling exotic perfumes and avidly whiffing strange smells on the long island in the Seine upon which France has strung like so many pearls her overseas colonies. Muddy, reeking with pungent coffee and spices and exceedingly popular are the North African bazaars whose keepers seem to scream and haggle the loudest when not flattering and blandishing the most seductively. Especially beautiful are the Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian quarters with their tinkling fountains, warmly atmospheric patios, fakirs and camels. On hot days, Equatorial and Occidental African craftsmen were stinking...
Superlatives, Most popular pavilion at the Exposition to judge from the number of visitors thus far: Belgium's. . . . Price of the Van Cleef & Arpels brooch of overlapping leaves in small diamonds and rubies duplicating one bought by the Duke of Windsor for his Duchess: 225,000 francs ($8,300). . . . Greatest achievement from the standpoint of Exposition engineering: although the fair is in the very centre of Paris, normal city traffic is not interfered with, passes through subterranean tunnels or overhead bridges which completely avoid exposition structures or traffic. . . . Most irrepressibly Parisian novelty shown: a pair of women...
Cooperation, Not Territory. In Tokyo, although the Imperial Government maintained their attitude of surprise that there has been any fighting in North China, the popular press prematurely told Japanese citizens how wonderful it is that an extension of Japanese influence which might have taken one to three months had been accomplished in as many weeks...
...circulation, without using the stunts and free insurance schemes which have been standard promotion practice with many of the big British dailies. But it was one of the first British class papers to reduce its price (in 1930) from twopence to a penny to compete with the popular press. It still has a long way to go to reach the huge figures of the Daily Express (2,162,979), Daily Herald (2,000,000), Daily Mail (1,717,133). But in prestige and influence the Daily Telegraph has come up to rank with its matutinal colleague, the Times, which...
...Yorker until 1908 when he was 40. At that time he was an eye & ear doctor and he got a job with New York Flower Hospital Medical College. Soon he began to have Democratic leanings and was on good terms with Hearst for whose newspapers he wrote popular health treatises. John F. Hylan, a Tammany mayor who was the darling of Hearst, made him city health commissioner. In 1922 when Al Smith was running for Governor, a piece of good fortune fell into the doctor's lap. Since Smith refused to have Hearst, who wanted nomination...