Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glass door near the entrance to every apartment house in Paris sits a well-upholstered Cerberus who can purr contentedly or breathe fire at will. She (usually it is a she) is the Parisian concierge. Parisians call her La Pipelette, after Mme. Pipelet, a garrulous character in a popular French novel (The Mysteries of Paris). Paris knows her well, courts her favor, dreads and cherishes her power and protection. Last week, La Pipelette's very existence was threatened, and with it a bittersweet slice of Parisian life...
...American Council's spring convention in Denver last fortnight, the 30 delegates passed resolutions opposing, among other things, "Brotherhood Week" and federal aid to education. The brotherhood of man, McIntire has said, is an unchristian idea. "Jesus Christ repudiated the popular doctrine that is on the lips of thousands of preachers today-the universal Fatherhood of God. There is no such doctrine taught in the Bible. Neither does its corollary, the brotherhood of man, exist in the Bible...
...When popular Conductor Arthur Fiedler marched to the gladioli-banked podium three days after Koussevitzky's farewell, a hallful of Pops fans were there to give him a roar of welcome...
...cellos and beamed while waitresses collected orders at the crowded tables-for beer, wine and the purplish lemonade known as "Pop Punch." When the applause was insistent, he signaled for an encore from more than 400 numbers that he keeps on tap. On opening night the most popular encores were Buttons and Bows and The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; as they always do when they specially like one, the fans replied with long, loud...
This article informed us that "Chiang has received more than three billion dollars from the U.S., much of it in actual war material. Still his armies have melted before Mao's Communists. The reason is obvious incompetent leadership, corruption, and lack of popular support." I suggest that the moral forces that overcame Chiang were very real indeed; but methinks these "moral forces" have taken up more than a little space on the Kremlin-to-China trade route...