Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evils of bureaucracy, centralization and extravagant expenditures are a popular reaction to the evils of private privilege. They are defensive and complementary. They are fire used to fight fire, they are abuses of public power resulting from abuses of private power, and only those who are prepared to deal with the causes can hope to deal with the consequences...
...fair-skinned dowager seized it herself, uttered sounds which British radio listeners may well have thought were words spoken by His Majesty in his native Amharic-until an announcer cleared up the mistake. As Good Old Haile Selassie withdrew into the house, 1,000 admirers out front snapped up popular dailies, one of which cried under a banner headline: ''Haile Selassie is a welcome visitor, for he belongs to that band of men with the courage to stand up against tyranny and stand by what is right at the risk of death in order that justice might live...
...that 20 years ago they originated the syncopated style of music now known as "swing." La Rocca has been running a grocery store, Shields painting houses. Last week the secret was out. At the Old Absinthe House. La Rocca and Shields were just getting "lipped up." With "swing" more popular than ever before, the old Dixieland Band was about to reorganize, set out on the road again...
...where that fee was more than doubled. At first, many found the Dixieland's music disconcerting. The players wore freak hats, jigged all over the platform, had a stuffed monkey set up in front of the drums with electric lights for eyes and a baton that waved automatically. Popular tunes when the Dixieland first went North were Pretty Baby, They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii, Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Soon the metropolis was cavorting to the Dixieland's own tunes, which have since become jazz classics: Tiger...
...great Ellen Terry. A product of Westminster, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and several years of British stock, he made his reputation in successive appearances as Romeo, Hamlet and King Lear at London's Old Vic Theatre, branched out as a successful actor- manager in 1934. The most popular matinee idol England has seen in years, he experimented with the screen in Secret Agent because he admired Director Hitchcock, wanted to learn his methods at first hand. After each day's shooting at Gaumont's suburban studio, he scurried back to London to appear on the stage...