Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general House of Commons atmosphere of hysteria and tears, tottered out weeping. The appointment as his successor of Robert Anthony Eden, a handsome young man with ancestors who were Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, was the one logical move in a British fortnight of illogic. In the popular mind "Eden" stands for going whole hog against Italy, but in the House of Commons he has said that The Deal or any other arrangement acceptable to Italy, Ethiopia and the League would not be opposed by Britons. This stand by popular young Captain Eden promised well for a peaceful solution...
...fish indeed lay beneath the sauce. At home and overseas the nation was seized by a conviction that in the behavior of His Majesty's Government there were elements of treachery, cowardice and stupidity. This was an impression created by the building up of layer on layer of popular impressions...
...highly sympathetic, but they also gave the further impression that if they won the election they would bend every effort to securing a major triumph for Geneva by contriving ''through the League of Nations" to main tain the independence and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. Strong was the popular impression that no solution which did not remove the last Italian soldier from Ethiopian soil would be countenanced by His Majesty's Government...
...Besson turned to the problems of international finance. To end Depression he suggested an international currency known as "Europa francs," printed bundles of them, insisted on paying for all his purchases with them, a habit less popular with his constituents than his dramatic escapes from the police...
...land. Again he got generous credit for his ability to stoke up steam under dramatic situations, explode them in fine style. Praised, too, was Mr. Odets' peculiar vulgate in which a girl is a "squab" or a "melon," thoughts are sometimes articulated by the titles of popular songs and a state of amorous infatuation occurs when "the little love bugs get into you." The play as a play, however, critics unanimously found confused, pretentious, empty. Mr. Odets was fervently wished better luck next time...