Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists, Socialists and left-wing Radical Socialists who form the Popular Front can stick to their plan of united action through the run-off elections, they should control the next Chamber, should be able to form the next Cabinet. Their united votes last week were less than had been anticipated, about 50% of the 10,000,000 cast. Thus chances were that the Left Front can form a government only by coin-promising with the Right in the traditional French manner. During the life of the last Chamber of Deputies France changed Cabinets eleven times...
...Ewen has, however, done a really excellent piece of work in so far as he is concerned with the "man with the baton" and not with the men under him. An excellent chapter on, baton exhibitionism does much to "debunk" some popular fallacies as well as to expose certain audience-minded conductors and their tricks to catch popular support. That Leopold Stokowski's Polish accent is a fake, that one conductor wears a corset at every concert to improve his figure, and that a French conductor changes batons in mid-symphonic stream all makes very entertaining if not instructive reading...
NOAH WEBSTER: SCHOOLMASTER TO AMERICA-Harry R. Warfel-Macmillan ($3.50). Though Webster and dictionary are synonymous in the U. S., Noah Webster's posthumous fame is cloudy. He is often confused with Daniel Webster (no kin), and his multitudinous activities have faded from popular memory. Last week, in a full-length biography of Noah Webster, the first in 50 years, Author Warfel dusted the cobwebs off this early Yankee, showed him as a genuine and valuable antique...
...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...
...those familiar with the popular literature of spiritualism, what Researcher Garland has to tell will be nothing new. He and his fellow-researchers did what they could to cramp the mediums' style, by tying them to their chairs, tacking their skirts to the floor, putting rustly newspapers on their laps. In spite of these bonds tables gyrated, pianos played, "ectoplasmic" faces made luminous appearances, megaphones whispered remarks from dead-&-gone characters on "the other side.'' Investigator Garland was impressed but noticed some incongruities. "I confess that it was a bit surprising to find Socrates and Julius Caesar...