Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gone was Labor's uncontested rule of London and its breezy confidence about the 1950 general elections. With 64 seats each in the county council, the Conservatives and Laborites were tied. The one remaining seat went to the Liberal candidate, 73-year-old Sir Percy Harris. In the popular vote the Conservatives got 1,523,529, the Laborites...
...quality, the show is by no means up to the production. But it is surefire popular stuff, filled with surefire popular stuffing. Hammerstein & Logan have contrived a shrewd mixture of tear-jerking and rib-tickling, of sugar & spice and everything twice. Their musical play is far superior to the usual libretto nonsense; it is quite the equal, in fact, of the usual movie yarn. To all those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights...
When the HDC wheeled Monty. Woolley onto the stage last night, it ended a series of artistic experiments and popular failures. By giving up on experimental drama and producing "The Man Who Came to Dinner," the club has turned out a tremendously amusing show. It isn't art, but there are lots of laughs...
...mind of the average man today is Laughton's creation. In the same way, the history of Henry's last four marriages which most people know is really the script of this film. Maxwell Anderson's current creation on Broadway may create a new Henry for the popular taste, but so far the Laughton version still rules. Elsa Lanchester, Laughton's real wife, really goes to town with that nebulous character, Anne of Cleves...
...Trafalgar, contrary to popular legend, he did not dress up in his showiest costume and expose himself on the most suicidal part of the deck. He merely wore his usual frock coat and quietly paced the upper deck-until a musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other...