Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europeans, to whom politics is grim and often deadly business, were puzzled by the rowdedow. Said one Frenchman: "I understand opera singers come and sing popular songs . . . Surely you cannot consider it sound to nominate a President by singing songs...
...first chance to pass on this sort of socialism in action. Result: 1) the CCF lost 16 seats in the house, slashing its total from 47 to 31 (Liberals picked up 15 seats for a total of 18, Tories one); 2) a drop from 53% to 47% of the popular vote; 3) defeat of the two cabinet ministers most directly concerned with the socialization projects. Even though the CCF was still in power, its prestige had been hard hit. Jeered the anti-socialist Regina Leader-Post: "Mr. Douglas has been given the benefit of the doubt...
...Louis had been world heavyweight champion so long (eleven years and three days) that many people had forgotten the last one.* Idol of the Negro race, and so popular with the whites that the old cry for a "white hope" never came up, Joe Louis, the slow-thinking Alabama boy, was a champion the whole U.S. was proud of. No taint of suspicion ever hung over any of his 61 pro fights (although he was managed for years by racket men). The gate receipts grossed a whopping $11,000,000 of which his share...
...sweet-natured, spirited, unaffected girl, and unquestionably a talented one; she also has the makings of a big, popular movie star. She already gets 2,000 fan letters a week. Among them there have already been twelve proposals of marriage, and a proposition from an Indian chiropodist which is the ultimate sort of accolade a movie star must get used to. Would Miss Simmons be so kind, the Indian fan asked, as to send him a photograph of her feet, and a sliver of toenail...
Risky Past. An ideal childbirth anesthetic would be safe for both mother & child, take away most of the pain, leave the mother able to cooperate with nature. Doctors have tried many anesthetics, always found something wrong. The big drawback to "twilight sleep," popular in the early 1900s; the drugs used (scopolamine or hyoscine hydrobromide, with barbiturates) might, like too much ether and chloroform, poison the baby through the blood of the mother. Continuous caudal anesthesia, first used for childbirth in 1941, has pitfalls for inexperienced doctors (if the needle gets into the spinal canal, the mother...