Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book which went far to provide the country with a new interpretation of its history. The U. S., according to Mr. Millis, had been sucked into war; Woodrow Wilson had been a victim of mistaken policies and a puppet of circumstance; the toils of propaganda, insidious stirrings of befuddled popular sympathy, the operation of businessmen and financiers, had dragged the U. S. into a foreign mess that took the lives of 126,000 citizen-soldiers. There were well-known facts: In the autumn of 1914 J. P. Morgan & Co. became agents for the purchase of war supplies by Great Britain...
...popular imagination of the world," cried Sir Philip from his padded seat, "there is no doubt that Zaharoff is regarded as a very sinister figure walking through the courts of Europe as agent for the sale of munitions. . . . Was he not your general agent...
...Cummins reported he had received more requests for it than for any other number. So did Bandmaster Ozzie Nelson at Manhattan's Lexington Hotel. Both NBC and Columbia broadcasting chains, at death grips with the potent music publishers, announced that the tune, which was unrestricted, was the most popular on the air. Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, Ukranian, Greek, Negro dialect, Irish brogue and pig-Latin. In dance halls, cinemansions. night clubs the nation...
...fact that jazz was once more immensely popular in the land of its birth was illustrated last week not alone by the insane vogue of The Music Goes 'Round And Around. Black pianist Thomas ("Fats") Waller, who can swing with the best of them when he wants to, arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood, gave a "recital" of jazz music 'at a midtown hotel under the auspices of Twentieth Century-Fox, for whom he had just helped make King of Burlesque, and who were anxious to cash in on the notoriety attending the burgeoning jazz movement...
...Anglophile sportsmen are apt to see something silly in the expensive preoccupations of the "manure set," while plain citizens are apathetic if not hostile. The hunting set itself, impregnably self-sufficient as it tries to appear, is uncomfortably aware that they order these things better in England. This popular U. S. attitude toward fox-hunting is reflected in the jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford Peters, Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds. Written primarily of and for the manure set, Just Hunting...