Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photography, with 16 votes, is the most popular pastime among the 110 men who have answered, while yachting is runner-up with 12 adherents. The other most popular interests are chess, music, literature, stamps and butterfly hunting...
Sarita, Spanish dancer, will give a recital of gypsy, and popular Spanish dances this evening at 8:15 o'clock in Jordan Hall. Her program will include several of her own choreographic compositions such as "Rapsodia Valencia", a compendium of the varied rhythms of vivid and exciting Valencia, "Zambra" a Moorish gypsy dance and several other interpretations based upon the colorful, impassioned themes of popular Spanish melodies...
...yielded $21,000 of the $148,800 revenue. The endowment that year totalled $509,000 after deducting "doubtful and desperate debts" to the extent of $149,000. Notes and mortgages accounted for $308,000 Real estate valued at $75,000 brought $4,300. Speculation had not yet become a popular form of investment, Stock in five Boston banks and in several bridges over the Charles totalled only $15,000, yielded $890 a year...
...Trade not as a privileged private club but as a public institution susceptible of improvement. With Royal Munger he was viewing the Insull empire with quiet alarm two years before it fell. In his column called "VANDERPOEL" he is usually to be found in any economic corner except the popular one. One of his punching bags currently is the general theory that real Recovery waits on a revival of heavy industry...
...typical novels of that bygone day? He might well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that for the umpteenth time Romance was again rearing its tousled...