Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winked. At the church door Groom Johnny hailed his car like an old-timer (see cut). The guests trooped after, to the Nahant Tennis Club. They consumed 500 bottles of imported champagne, and food which Secret Service in the kitchen had made sure was not poisoned. A popular morsel of their gossip was about Mrs. Franklin Jr. (Ethel du Pont) who is expecting a baby...
...Popular are: 1) Franklin Roosevelt's personality, liked by 80.3%, disliked by 11.7%* of the people (liked in fact by a majority in every section of the U. S., of every class and occupation); 2) his rearmament policy liked by 63.6%, disliked by 13.2%; 3) F. D. R. as President, approved of "in general" by 54.8%, disapproved of by 33.9%; 4) his international policy, liked by 50%, disliked by 15%; 5) his wages-&-hours legislation, liked by 48.8%, disliked by 21.8%; 6) his eco-nomic objectives, liked by 48.1%, disliked by 29.1%; 7) his attitude toward unions, liked...
Symphony Hall until July 2 will continue the "Pops," Boston's unique contribution to popular entertainment and the spread of good music. The orchestra under Arthur Fiedler is invariably good, and although there are special programs on special nights, each performance runs the gamut from classic to modern. Harvard football songs are occasional encores, and dance music is presented now and again, although no attempt is made to compete with Mr. Goodman, now on the Ritz Roof...
...Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas still follow customs and use much of the lingo of their early colonial ancestors. Though many of them are illiterate, they have handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, ballads and hymns that can be traced to Elizabethan England. Still popular among them are such hoary items as Sir Patrick Spens, Barbara Allen, Robin Hood and Little John...
Among the various plenties that abound in the U. S., the most indigenous and widespread is the plenty of Nothing that almost any U. S. citizen will admit he's got. This inexhaustible national resource is the inspiration of many a popular song (Nobody's Sweetheart; I Got Plenty of Nothin;'), of many a Negro spiritual and folksong. But it has been passed up by most U. S. poets. The first one to crack this national theme wide open, to taste all its implications and to manage to spit them out in undeviating American language, is Edward...