Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catalogued by the students in Professor Sach's course on Museum Work and Problems, from paintings, drawings, mosaics, and other material, it made an impressive demonstration of its theme as applied to western European painting. But the most notable exhibition in initiative, size and public interest--in fact the popular event of the last three years--was the Work of Paul Gauguin, including both paintings and prints. It was arranged by the newly formed Boston Chapter of the Museum of Modern Art, under the auspices of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Germanic Museum, and the Fogg Museum...
Pharmacopoeia Revision Committee (17 doctors, 33 pharmacists), contains the legal specifications for preparing and testing 568 pure drugs. The National Formulary, published by the American Pharmaceutical Association, is a compendium of 500 popular formulas. The American Pharmaceutical Recipe Book, also published by the American Pharmaceutical Association, is a collection of 2,000 formulas taken from pharmacopoeias all over the world, chemical formulas and prescriptions for dental and cosmetic preparations, poisons and antidotes. New & Nonofficial Remedies, published by the American Medical Association, describes new drugs which A. M. A. authorities approve. Revised editions of these four important fat volumes, which every...
...which it required a Roosevelt landslide to jar into the consciousness of manufacturers. Months before the subject reached the floor of Congress, organized retailing was thumping for Social Security. Pensions and benefits swell the public's purchasing power, hence are fine for merchants-and they happened to be popular with the electorate. Popular with part of the electorate are consumer co-operatives but there the retailers draw the line. The idea of private property without profit has given them the jitters, particularly since the New Deal took enough interest in co-operatives to dispatch a commission to Europe...
Coin phonographs retail at $235, $340, and up, are very popular in the Deep South, are sold to lunch parlors, roadside diners and social clubs, often may be paid for in installments out of the proceeds. A third big phonograph maker is J. P. Seeburg Corp. of Chicago, whose tall, polished President Noel Marshall Seeburg was chairman of the coin men's convention last week for the third time...
...vivid imagination, material to satisfy my own unfulfilled longing for romantic love." Her first novel, The Visits of Elizabeth, came out as a newspaper serial, made such a hit that it was published as a book. A love-starved public called for more. By 1917 a popular edition of Elinor Glyn's books sold a million copies. Her most famed tale. Three Weeks (1907), which she wrote in six, raised a storm in pulpit and press, was widely condemned as wicked. But most of its critics, says Elinor Glyn, never read the book, consequently did not realize its moral...