Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Midnight Blue is becoming exceedingly popular in both Tails...
With the end of the depression, or for some other equally good reason, men are dressing up more this fall and winter than many a year past: not just the always popular dinner jacket, but more to tails for the real formal occasions...
Naturally the single breasted dinner suits with Skinner Satin lapels will be in the best of taste. But, we belive that the most popular dinner coat this winter is the Double Breasted suit with dull grosgrain facing...
...some years ago by Communist newsorgans of having been, during the War, one of those hard-boiled women who made easier the lot of soldiers, and in her grief at this accusation Mme Salengro died of heart disease. The Communists, having joined with the Socialists to make possible the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Blum, later turned from foes of Socialist Salengro into friends, but he found other foes. Ever since last August, the weekly Gringoire and other Paris organs of the Right have been hammering at hard-boiled Minister Salengro while he hammered back so vigorously that in punishment...
What Were The Facts? Being a widower, M. Salengro lived alone at Lille, Mayor of that big city (pop. 200,000) and popular for his energetic efforts among the poor. His housekeeper had cooked his dinner, left it in the warm oven, and had gone home as usual. His chauffeur went home after leaving the Minister of Interior at his door, and in Paris his secretary at the Ministry had already taken a long-distance call in which M. Salengro said that he felt tired and begged to be excused from a scheduled appointment next day with his friend...