Word: popular
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Thus transferred to Edward VIII was the genial nickname Scotsmen bestowed on his grandfather King Edward VII. Scottish authorities differ as to whether this venerable Sovereign was called "Good old Teddy!" because his figure somewhat resembled that of the popular Teddy Bear, created in the year of his accession (1901). From now on in Scotland 41-year-old King Edward is good old Teddy...
Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...
...diligently over the Metropolitan production. Belgian René Maison proved himself an actor in the role of Leonora's husband. Basso Emanuel List was at his best as the easy-going jailer. But it was Norway's Kirsten Flagstad who did most to make the performance a popular success. She sang the most taxing passages with uncommon skill and ease, acted with a simplicity completely suited to the music. Earlier in the season there were critics who feared for Flagstad's voice, wondered if she were not trying to work it too hard (TIME, Dec. 23). Last...
...conversion offer that accompanied the big cash offer, the Treasury reported that practically all the maturing securities would be exchanged, that 90% of the holders wanted long-term bonds, not notes. Overjoyed was Secretary Morgenthau that his long-term issues had at last become more popular than his short-terms, indicating rising confidence in New Deal finances, about to be bolstered as they are by fresh taxation...
...truly, after the next war, let the winner take over the beaten country and keep it down. If popular opinion gets strong, and riots start, shoot down a couple of thousand of the natives. If that makes the riots even fiercer, shoot down thousands more. Sooner or later they'll get used to subservience, and then wars with that particular country, whether it be Great Britain, France, Italy, or Germany again, will be no more. SATAN