Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complaints against maintenance are legion--the case of the nine dollar chair which is repaired for seven; the piano moved after the dance for twenty-five; or the spot on the wall which gets the room painted, at a cost resented whether high or low. All typical of the popular gripes, they are usually followed by charges of padding, graft, mismanagement and outright corruption. A closer study points to a different picture. The chair doubtless required several hours work by a skilled carpenter in addition o the time expended in transportation form the House or office to the maintenance building...
...call "Show Boat" anything but glorious and magnificent is to charge verbally into a line of critical and popular opinion that has held solidly for twenty years, progressively extolling first the original production and then each of two revivals. Nevertheless, ignoring for the moment whatever else it may be, "Show Boat" is not a great musical. It tells a dull story peopled with dull characters. Never does it generate more than a mild, academic curiosity as to what will happen next, and whatever does happen next invariably justifies the lack of anticipation...
Gallup pollsters reported that if a federal election were held now, the Liberals would get 43% of the popular vote (they got 41% in the 1945 election); Tories 28% (29% in 1945); CCF 16% (15%); other parties...
...Popular-music fans who wanted to wear the New Look were prying into piano benches for faded copies of All of Me, I'm in the Mood for Love, Have You Ever Been Lonely? Record companies rushed out new versions of My Blue Heaven, and Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams...
Said grey, spindly Director Edmund W. Sinnott: "Science is modern, popular and dominant. It needs no special pleaders.... It cannot help being tempted to a certain arrogance and a conviction that the keys of truth are in its hands alone. [But] logic and reason are no monopoly of science. . . . Science regards a human being not as a soul which may be saved or lost but as an exquisitely constructed physicochemical mechanism. ... To many thoughtful minds the gains of science are secondary and superficial things...