Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music's anaesthetic effect must have made it particularly popular in Europe during the period between the wars. France had its stringed Hot Club, and Hugues Pannassie learned to speak English with a Louisiana accent. In his biography, "Swing That Music," Louis Armstrong refers to his 1934 Continental tour glowingly; "everybody was mighty nice to me and made me fell right away I was with friends. A lot of the musicians asked me if it wasn't true that when I hit my high C's on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. They had not thought...
...Madison, Wisconsin, last September, 750 United States students from 351 colleges and universities gathered in a huge convention hall and gave a government to their popular national organization. They provided for an annual national student congress; they set up an executive committee, as well as a domestic and an international committee to carry out plans formulated by early congresses...
...British Medical Association. Dr. Hill has long been B.M.A.'s chief spokesman and propagandist. Primarily a health educator, he had practiced little bedside medicine before he went on the air. But in the last six years he has become one of Britain's most powerful and popular medicos...
Amber Over Tokyo. Mott asks, but cannot answer, why the field of popular fiction has been so narrow. There have been no lastingly popular American novels on industry, the clipper ships, the rail roads, the Oregon Trail, immigration, the discovery of gold or oil, the movies, radio, or the New Deal. Readers could get good, solidly based historical novels on the fall of Rome or the battle of Waterloo, but not of the Lewis & Clark expedition...
...days of the railroad builders, U.S. readers got St. Elmo and Under Two Flags. When the clipper ships were sailing to China, one of the popular novels was The Scarlet Letter. When the wagon trains were going over South Pass, it was Swiss Family Robinson. The year before Japan fell, it was Forever Amber...