Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidate stood was whether to keep the boundary by which Britain had divided her predominantly (65%) Protestant northern counties from predominantly Roman Catholic (92%) Eire. It was a foregone conclusion that those in favor of keeping the border would win. The surprise was that the Unionists (Protestants) increased their popular vote to 63% and rolled up a better than 3-to-1 majority in the House of Commons over the Republicans (Catholics...
...weapon of the manufacturers is a little plumbline which hangs inside a small circle of wire; when the weight at the end is deflected enough to touch the circle it completes a circuit, and a polite little sign on the scoreboard says "Tilt," or in the case of one popular machine using a Western theme, "Yipee Tilt!" Even this device is often insufficient however. A veteran "fifty-mission-man" can hit the machine vertically and bounce a ball back up the playing board without tilting it. Another technique, still more refined, is bodily lifting the whole machine and propping...
...exists today in all movies. Two categories have become evident-the Hollywood type and the literary type. The former is generally considered more lucrative, and the U.T. has found its widest regular audience with this kind of movie. Even the U.T.'s revival days have lately been filled with popular Hollywood articles of the past instead of showing old cinema masterpieces. The Theater, with its two contrasting audiences, has made its choice. The HLU filled the gap left by the U.T.'s decision, supplying the College audience, smaller than the U.T.'s, with literary films, regardless of language. The competition...
...Christina Ohlsen, 25, who graduated to a RIAS microphone by way of dancing school, a Nazi concentration camp and postwar German cabarets. Christina comes on the air pretending to be a newsboy, hawking the day's headlines in rhymes which frequently poke fun at the Communists. Her most popular tagline, delivered in a knowing, childish singsong, comes at the end of her report of any pompous Communist proclamation: "Das versteh' ich nicht," she says wonderingly, "das versteh' ich wirklich nicht! [That I don't understand, that I really don't understand!]." Throughout the Soviet zone...
...National Bank of Portsmouth, Va. and St. Louis' Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co.). Colorado State Bank's President B. F. Clark, 89, plunked down $4,000 to get one, spent another $4,000 excavating Teller Gibson's cage. By last week, the snorkel had proved so popular that some 85 customers a day were using...