Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will Hudson, one of the most prominent of modern orchestrators, arranged the music for Jack Benny's "Broadway Melody of 1936," as well as composing "Jazznocracy" and "White Heat," two melodies made popular by dusky Jimmy Lounceford...
...confirmatory evidence was a Borah announcement: "After a thorough survey of the Ohio situation, I am convinced that the people of that State should be given an opportunity to express their choice in the Presidential primary on May 12.... To obtain an expression of popular will, it is my intention to place at least eight candidates for delegates-at-large in the field...
...matter what art critics may think, art dealers know that, as far as the sale of expensive color reproductions is concerned, the three most popular artists in the world are van Gogh, Cezanne and Maxfield Parrish. Daybreak, Parrish's famed picture showing a boy and girl against a rising sun, has sold over 200,000 copies. Parrish Blue is a well recognized name for the vivid electric blue skies that he has affected for nearly two generations...
...Philadelphia in 1870. Maxfield Parrish inherited his talent from his father. Etcher Stephen Parrish. Comfortably off, he was sent to Haverford college, later to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. There he began experimenting with that deep luminous color with which he was later to win his popular renown. Not until he went to Paris did he learn the trick from copyists of Flemish and Italian primitives. A Maxfield Parrish sky starts with a wash of thin plaster on a prepared board, followed by a coat of pure ultramarine blue. Successive layers of transparent blue glazes...
Declared Dr. Valeria Hopkins Parker, social hygiene specialist: "If a child is old enough to ask questions, it is old enough to get an answer. ... A girl undoubtedly is more popular with boys if she pets; and we must remember that even a feeble-minded girl can pet; she may also become popular, for the boy need never find out she is feeble-minded...