Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When we launched it, it neither capsized nor sank, and in joy we hurled a bottle of our precious beer at the thing, and in answer to popular demand, it was christened the S. S. "Flying Trapeze...
Sixty-one persons paid tribute to Henry W. ("Eskie") Clark '23, retiring assistant director of athletics at Harvard, at a farewell dinner Saturday night at the Hotel Continental, Cambridge. The popular "Eskie" will take up his new duties as Director of Athletics at Lafayette College on January...
...sudden death four times-but those incidents lasted only a few seconds or minutes. This trip over the Journey of Death, the 'Road of 1,500 Turnings,' lasts from 90 minutes to two hours if you get through at all. "0ur native Eritrean driver is driving a popular-priced American car and is not too familiar with its mechanics. . . . We reach a scene that sobers him. A motor truck has just plunged over a 150-foot precipice. Mangled remains of the driver are dragged up to the road. He lies there dying, a tall, fair, handsome young
...execution will be to throw victims from the Pont de la Concorde into the Seine." On the fateful day a cold Paris drizzle was enough to send all dissident elements into their favorite cafes, blowing on their fingers and puffing with indignation. At the last minute the so-called "Popular Front" of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists opposing the Premier split, Boss Edouard Herriot of the Radical Socialists holding back the bulk of his Radical Socialists, temporarily at least, from the onslaught demanded by Boss Léon Blum of the Socialists. What with the rain and the split, Premier...
...Jazz is scorned only by amateur highbrows," maintained Edward B. Hill, '94, professor of Music, in a recent interview with The CRIMSON. Real Jazz, he thinks, should not be considered in depreciatory sense, for in France the only American compositions thought worthy of notice are the popular songs. In the French musical magazines several pages each month are devoted to reviews of American records. Any other American musical offerings are considered as mere reflections of the music of the continent and unworthy of special attention...