Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gahan and his 10-piece orchestra will provide music for the crowd expected Saturday after the Navy game at the Kirkland House Dinner Dance. The popular Gahan will play in the Junior Common Room from 8 to 12 and an amplifying system has been installed to carry the tunes into the Dining Room so that plenty of room will be available for dancing. Don Gahan has scored big hits in two previous House affairs this season; his band features special arrangements in the Hudson-Delange manner...
...question was presented to the public repeatedly, through voiced and printed arguments, until no opposition worthy of the name remained, Hearst papers, alone standing firm for the oath. Church groups sensed the beginning of mechanized thinking, labor leaders recognized a popular issue in time to support repeal, and the majority of the press was favorably inclined. The fundamental question, whether teachers can discuss changes in society, was somehow felt on all sides. Roosevelt, Landon, Smith have all opposed teachers' oaths, and now the Massachusetts legislature seems to be approaching agreement with them...
...Presidency of any great American university than that of Dr. Edmund E. Day. He has seen higher education in America from every important standpoint. His undergraduate days were spent at Dartmouth, and he attained his Doctor's degree at Harvard; then he taught both large introductory courses in a popular subject and small advanced courses in technical branches of the same field. He then became head of a professional school in a great state university of the Middle West. His more recent work for the Rockefeller Foundation has brought him into close contact with problems and trends in general public...
...York), but would have had little success with his project when he got back to France without the interest of Historian Edouard de Laboulaye, grandfather of the present French Ambassador to Washington. With the backing of Historian de Laboulaye and other prominent Frenchmen, francs were raised by popular subscription among French citizens to present the statue to the U. S. on its 100th Anniversary, the Philadelphia Exposition...
Sometimes writers compose a cycle of novels because they want to continue relating the adventures of characters whose first appearance has been a popular success. Sometimes, like Jules Remains with his multiple-volumed Men of Good Will, it is because they work on a scene too vast to be portrayed in a single book. But in his novels on the wild Fury family, James Hanley gives the impression of having caught a bear by the tail and of being dragged along by the creations his imagination has called into being. That impression, strongly conveyed by The Furys, published last year...