Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked washbasins, and one of their most popular items was a cheap, "hard" mattress, usually filled with fleas. Thus, back in the 1890s, the famed Paris Flea Market began...
...Moscow, where the food and service is better but not much, the Soviet government is also grappling with the restaurant problem. Moskovskaya Pravda related the sad story of Comrade Lopatkin, director of Moscow's popular Dynamo restaurant, who first fell from grace when his pet cat, Vasya, lost its appetite. Disdaining offerings of liverwurst, white bread, porridge and grapes, the cat did agree to eat the best canned crabmeat from the restaurant's storeroom, and was soon wolfing a can a day. Next, Lopatkin's wife admired the restaurant chandelier, and Lopatkin sent it home. Before long...
...greatest singer, Enrico Caruso, made his debut in Rigoletto in 1903, sang 607 performances of 36 operas in the next 17 seasons, and transformed the Met into a genuinely popular house. Soprano Geraldine Farrar, trailed by a worshipful female fan club of self-styled "gerryflappers," reigned with him. But Arturo Toscanini, with Gustav Mahler, the greatest of the Met's conductors, deftly cut his singers to size, and in only seven seasons changed the house from a kind of glorified star club into a smooth-functioning repertory theater. During one rehearsal, temperamental Soprano Farrar turned...
...attacks on Hogan were worn down, however, by a steady dose of facts. He was an effective and popular District Attorney, receiving the support of all parties in his campaign for the office; therefore, it was rather difficult for the Republicans suddenly to condemn him. These considerations would have made him a very strong candidate, had his nomination taken place under different circumstances...
...little ironies of academic life in the College is the fact that section meetings, taken for granted during Freshman and Sophomore year, suddenly disappear when the student begins taking large, popular upper-level courses as a Junior or Senior...