Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, charged popular, three-time Charterite Mayor Russell Wilson, the reward demanded by Councilman Bigelow for supporting the charter was three important city jobs for his friends. Rather than pay that price, Chartermen would apparently dicker with the Republicans. Meantime, Councilman Bigelow blithely observed: "Perhaps we may never get a Mayor. What's the difference? A Mayor is only a ceremonial figure, a sort of political parsley to adorn ceremonial dinners. Why shouldn't the Councilmen take turns at this sort of punishment, eating meals without money and making speeches without meaning...
...largest exhibition of the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) ever held in the U. S. ended its Manhattan showing last week, packed up for a road show that will include Philadelphia. Boston, Cleveland and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 28). Final figures disclosed that it was the most popular exhibit that the Museum of Modern Art has had in all its six years. Before the doors closed last week. 123,339 people had gaped at van Gogh's brilliant, swirling canvases...
...Viennese critic described her as "a black Lilli Lehmann." That she is not. But she is an exciting, sure-voiced singer who would make any race proud. Her Handel songs instantly revealed a breadth and nobility of style. Her Schubert Ave Maria was not something interpolated to catch popular fancy; it was fervent, even as an organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving was Der Tod und das Mädchen, in which she made a sustained low D seem incidental to the horror of the dying girl, the call of Death itself. Thereafter came an aria from Verdi...
...Pretty & popular young sopranos are rare enough, but pretty & popular young contraltos almost unheard of. Industrious Gladys Swarthout worked hard, made her name familiar to radio listeners in broadcasts for General Electric, General Motors, Atwater Kent, Palmolive Soap, Firestone Tires, Fleischmann's Yeast...
...confrères, placed 18th - an achievement more creditable than it seems because his specialty is not jumping but downhill racing. Major development in the rise of U. S. winter sports in the last eight years has been the sudden, inexplicable boom in skiing. Increase in the popularity of skiing has been noticeable ever since the 1932 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, but the boom really started last year. This winter, skiing has suddenly become a nationwide mania. Evidences: In New York, department stores (Saks-Fifth Avenue, Macy's, Altman's, Spalding's) within the past...