Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singing talents could hardly remain quiescent and undiscovered in a time when serenading was popular and Boston had so many pretty girls, and about 1858, a separate Glee Club was formed. This group gave many joint concerts with Pierian, and the two groups would go out troubadoring many times until "the stupid interference of the officers of the law" finally caught up with the customs and broke it for good...
Saddest cases were the left-wing Socialists, who under Pietro Nenni had joined the Communists on the single Popular Front ticket. Said tough former Socialist Minister Giuseppe Romita, urging a break with Nenni: "The Popular Front absorbed and nullified our party...
...national election pool, one Luigi Prato, of Valenza, a pessimistic member of the Popular Front, accurately guessed the number of seats the Popular Front would receive in the Chamber. By betting against his own side...
...Workers Are Us." Alcide de Gasperi, looking happier than he had in years, cried with shaking voice: "We are not reactionaries. Every social reform which has been promised will be made." Of the Popular Front's 8,000.000 voters he said: "We are working to convert them." He also indicated that Italy would join the Western Union, but hoped that her peace treaty would first be softened...
...Radcliffe, however, the step would present other obstructions, the most important one being the possibility of losing for 'Cliffe undergraduates their popular honor system. Radcliffe cannot be expected to favor a change which would saddle examinations with proctors and rules which are now notably and happily absent...