Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither did the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. In last week's national amateur tennis championships at Forest Hills, Davis Cuppers Parker, Talbert and Mulloy were seeded first, second and third. Young (25) Victor Seixas of the University of North Carolina filed a popular demurrer. Said he: "It's no longer a question of when the younger generation is going to arrive. We're here, brother...
Died. Emil Ludwig, 67, German-born biographer, playwright and political essayist, whose popular, sentimentalized big-name biographies (Goethe, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Stalin) set a fashion; of a heart ailment; in Ascona, Switzerland. The son of a rich Jewish ophthalmologist, Ludwig began his prolific writing career as a verse dramatist, switched to war correspondence and then to highly colored biography. A voluntary exile from Germany since 1907 (his books were later burned by the Nazis), he became a Swiss citizen in 1932, worked as a $1-a-year bond salesman for the U.S. Treasury during World...
...world war, both the U.S. State Department and the Vatican thought the book important enough to be smuggled out of Italy in a diplomatic pouch. When Persons and Places was published in the U.S. in 1944, it became the second book of Philosopher George Santayana to win the popular accolade of the Book-of-the-Month Club (the first: his only novel, The Last Puritan). Readers who couldn't be bribed to look at a book of philosophy were beguiled by a style so urbane and a wit so civilized as to make even the cloistered life...
...such show of popular force had been seen in Germany since 100 years ago, when the people of Berlin took to the same streets to fight the royal troops. In 1948 they were without revolutionary leaders, but they had one great unifying purpose-freedom from Red tyranny. Momentously, the weight and voice of the German masses was coming into play in the battle between East and West. There was enough mass power in the Berlin throng to change the fate of Europe...
...without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable." On the other hand, the News thought that most of its readers would understand fairly longish ones like "intolerable" (though "unbearable" was better), or "incompatibility" (because of divorce cases), or "vulnerable" (because of bridge being so popular). The News conceded that it should have explained "genocide...