Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal hands dare possess-the common touch. Wilhelmina grew up in solitude, and did her best to spare her daughter that chilling ordeal. Instead of skating by herself on a guarded rink, Juliana did her skating with other kids. At 18, she entered Leiden University. She was a popular and adequate student, if not brilliant. Her judgment showed a Dutch caution that sometimes bordered on ludicrous understatement. Once she read a book by Leon Trotsky. Her opinion: "Trotsky is certainly a man of strong views...
...late Novelist Thomas Wolfe was more popular than ever in Asheville, N.C., the town he described as "Altamont" in Look Homeward, Angel. A group of the townspeople, calling themselves the Wolfe Memorial Association, set out to raise money for the restoration and preservation of "that bloody barn," the old Wolfe boardinghouse...
Adolf Hitler was still popular in Germany. His face made its first postwar magazine cover appearance on the U.S.-managed picture weekly, Weekend (to boom an article titled Is Hitler Still Alive?). The 20,000 copies allotted to Germans were snapped up like unrationed chocolate (some newsstands were begging for more after 20 minutes), sold out the first...
...they make their way out of their leafy open-air theater, St. Louisans can be comfortably proud of their Municipal Opera, which is neither municipally owned nor opera. Philadelphia's summer concerts in Robin Hood Dell had folded in midseason, and Manhattan's popular Lewisohn Stadium concerts had limped through to an $84,000 deficit. But the St. Louis company has taken in the most money ($650,000) of any season in its history, and played to its biggest one-night audience (11,935 f°r a performance of Rio Rita) during its 12½-week season...
Ernest, who had had a little musical education, had written some simple but appealing melodies. The doctors encouraged him; he was soon writing popular songs for his new friends among the staff and forgetting his need for a drink...