Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides its line of hearty staples, Charles began to stock delicacies high of tang and price-pate with truffles, cocks' combs and kidneys, diamondback rattlesnake. In 1885 it invented the steamer fruit basket, which proved so popular that Charles & Co. registered and still holds the grocery trade-mark "Bon Voyage." By 1929, with a list of steady customers that looked like a distillation of the social register, the com-pany was grossing some $5,000,000 a year...
...romantic fiction. Of late he has figured more often as the villain in more realistic pieces: such works as Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, Oscar Lewis' The Big Four, Ferdinand Lundberg's America's 60 Families. Last week a novel with good prospects of popularity-Agnes Sligh Turnbull's Remember the End (Macmillan, $2.50)-might well make readers wonder whether even popular romancers have begun to look asquint at success stories...
...second novel of a successful contributor to such publications as American Magazine, Remember the End ranks in literary and sentimental values with average competent popular fiction. In an earlier day it would probably have been a romantic version of the rise of Andrew Carnegie or Henry Clay Frick. But some misgiving about her hero's ambitions gives Author Turnbull's story a moral twist which is new to such fiction...
...biographies and works of history published each year in the U. S. reach big audiences. But most of them contribute at least one nugget of enlightenment with which a discriminating reader can enrich his knowledge of the past. Last month three new works, too specialized to be very popular, made absorbing reading for amateur historians...
...which defends the fireplace against the efforts of the others to kick a tennis ball past the andirons. If the players feel like bad sports the practice is to assign one person, someone not very well liked to defend the hearth against all attacks. This has been the most popular form of the game...