Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ugly as English bulldogs, boxers are a German improvisation arrived at by combining terriers, continental bulldogs and mastiffs. In Germany there are some 10,000 boxers, so named because when fighting they sometimes try to punch with their front paws. They are rivals to Doberman Pinschers in police work, popular as pets. By winning first prize in every show in which he has appeared, having himself declared "faultless" by Germany's best boxer judges, Dorian von Marienhof made it clear by the time he was 2 that he was the best boxer in Germany. Golden brindle...
...enough emphasized. But that is a retrospective fault. It is a splendid play, and McLaglen is excellent. Margot Grahame and Heather Angel lend tearful vividity to the general gloom. All in all, it is not hard to understand the extraordinary acclaim given this picture last year by professional and popular critics alike...
...front cover) Any exhibit opening in the wake of the enormously popular van Gogh show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was bound to begin with an initial handicap. As if this were not enough, the Museum's discreet directors last week placed two additional handicaps upon the first comprehensive showing of one of its finest gift collections, simply because the Museum's principal benefactor happens to have a great name and a great modesty. Handicap No. 1 was encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson...
...perhaps the only books in the future will be reference books, scientific books and research books." Thus gloomily spoke aging Novelist Newton Booth Tarkington fortnight ago. If he was thinking of the probable life of his forthcoming novel, The Lorenzo Bunch, or of the books written by that perishably popular U. S. school of which he is the acknowledged dean, he did well to be gloomy. Even Monsieur Beancaire, though it may have been written with crocodile tears, will not evaporate as fast as The Lorenzo Bunch, which was written in plain water. Tarkington addicts may find it a refreshing...
Snow-planning has become a popular winter sport at the leading New England airports. Started in Maine, where it was a necessity for air commerce during the winter months, the new method of flying first caught the public fancy by the success Admiral Byrd had with it on his Antarctic expedition...