Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year's popular Adams House coach, Donald L. Hassenfratz 3L, has been forced to resign this year because of pressure of studies. But Adolph W. Samborski '26, Director of Intramural Athletics, has obtained another seemingly competent man, R. B. Wolf 1L, to handle the Gold Coastors...
England's popular new stamp does not clearly establish precedent. In February 1935 the Dominican Republic issued a photostamp of her Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina at the same time that she changed the name of her capital city from Santo Domingo to Trujillo...
...twenties one of the most popular songs in the land was the lugubrious lament of a dispirited convict who wished he had the wings of an angel. Some 5,000,000 copies and phonograph records of The Prisoner's Song were sold. According to a myth as hollow as it was widespread, the composer was a condemned man awaiting execution in the death house of the Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma penitentiary. In Manhattan, around the all-night delicatessens where Broadway song pluggers and publishers gather for gossip and fun, it was always assumed that the composer was Vaudevillian...
When the literary history of the present era is eventually written, the strange and flighty career of Upton Sinclair is likely to provide one of its most picturesque footnotes. He is as much a literary oddity and popular favorite as General Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur while Governor of New Mexico, and who was distracted from his romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles...
...since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Oil has been translated into 30 languages, including Esperanto. A bibliography published in 1930 listed 525 translations of Sinclair's works in 34 nations, and 200 titles have been added since then. A library census in Sweden established Sinclair as the most popular author in that country, and a newspaper vote in Australia showed him runner-up to Dickens. Despite such far-flung successes, he has had to publish many of his U. S. works himself, says that he lost $30,000 distributing The Brass Check after every publisher rejected...