Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Britons have had less than no use for "Manny" Shinwell, but the Communists and the coal miners still love him. The Communist secretary of the Mineworkers' Union, Arthur Horner, tried to prevent his removal. Said "li'l Arthur," darkly: "I hope that some men who are popular with the miners and workers will not be sacrificed to please the Tories and Big Business." But when he saw that Attlee's hand was not to be stayed, Horner knuckled under: "We will work with Mr. Gaitskell [Shinwell's successor] as we have done with Mr. Shinwell...
...really begin to catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin prize. She was signed to appear at the Paramount Theater at $3,000 a week...
...only really effective cure for fatness, Dr. Bruch believes, is not in exercise or diets (although the "pure mechanical reducing," now popular in the reducing academies, is sometimes surprisingly successful, but only when the students have enough emotional control of themselves to go through with the course). Fatness, she says, is a psychosomatic condition; the blubbery patient belongs not in the gym, but in a psychiatrist's office. She implies that, with modern insight and sympathetic doctors, such well-known fatties as St. Thomas Aquinas, William Howard Taft, Hermann Goring or Charles the Fat might have been skinnies...
Widely traveled students are ready to deliver lectures on almost any subject, ranging from Egyptian mummies to popular science and the world's scenic attractions...
...Little Popular Contact...