Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Ministry for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment knew that news of "War Literature Week" would create an unfavorable impression abroad, popular though it was at home, Propagandist & Enlightener Dr. Goebbels exerted himself to the end that last week not a single foreign newspaper correspondent cabled so much as the name of one of the 60 Kultur authors or an excerpt from any of their works...
...jail awaiting trial for his life. Famed Journalist Radek (né Sobelsohn) suddenly "disappeared'" last month and neither his paper Izvestia ("News"), the official daily of the Soviet Government, nor any other Moscow organ printed a line as to the whereabouts of Communism's most popular commentator. According to such Red newsorgans abroad as the Manhattan Daily Worker Comrade Radek has a "dazzling talent greater probably than that of any other Communist journalist" and has ever been "a passionate partisan of the masses." Therefore last week the World proletariat was startled, to say the least, when Sovie Public...
...most modern readers the tricky, concise, anecdotal stories of William Sydney Porter, who wrote some twelve volumes of them under the name of 0. Henry, are apt to have a faintly dated air. The work of an amazingly prolific popular writer who had few literary pretensions and fewer literary ambitions, their in variable surprise endings have grown less surprising with the years, and the narrow ness of their range and the monotony of their mood have grown more conspicuous...
...contemporary sentimental fiction, the benign character of the aged grandmother who holds the family together, counsels the young, comforts the wretched and looks out upon life's kaleidoscopic panorama with eyes dimmed but kindly, has become one of the most popular characters in stock. But in Great Laughter Fannie Hurst has created an aged grandmother who seems destined to end ail aged grandmothers in popular fiction. In comparison with her, the teetering representatives of the oldest generation in the Jalna novels of Mazo de la Roche are just so many leaping adolescents, the doddering Forsytes of John Galsworthy...
...most, popular bands of CBS air waves (and for college programs, too) is House Heidt and his Brigadiers. One of the most popular members played by the tall, hand some maestro's orchestra is Building a Band, a feature on his varied program that brings to him listen the inside story of how a hand that commands the is built. Here COLLEGIATE Digest presents the Brigadiers at work Building a Band, with words by the versatile singing maestro, Below the numbers in sequence and you'll learn exactly how it's done and if you don't have...