Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recalling his college days as a classmate of Richard Whitney '11, Richard Clark Floyd '11, General Chairman of the 25th Reunion Committee of the Class of 1936, last night said: "He was very well liked and has been popular among his classmates ever since...
...move on foot to make the forbidden word "syphilis" a popular subject for dinner-table conversation probably has its redeeming features, but the degree to which certain publications have gone out of their way to "educate" the public in this matter is out of all proportion to the cooperation asked for by civic leaders. Indeed, the hue and cry has been such that even the most casual patron of local newsstands may well be under the impression that the country is undergoing a major epidemic, and that he himself is in direct danger of contamination...
...recall some of the figures whom he had known. Bukharin he described as a fanatic, but honest in his ideas in comparison with Yagoda. Furthermore he remembers Bukharin from the time when the latter was one of the Bolshevik leaders and he was the leader of the Popular party, as a cultured man, something which could not be said for Yagoda...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, is lifting his baritone voice in song fairly often these days. As critical judgement and undergraduate amazement at his recent performance of an operatic aria, the "Miserere" from a well-known opera, is dying down, word comes that he has turned to more popular musical fare to entertain his classes...
...popular conceptions, that Japan is on the verge of a revolution, and that Fascism is on the upgrade there, he branded as false. Almost unanimously the people believe that the land of the rising sun must "expand or explode"; any quarrel the people have to pick is with the means, not with the end. There is no more Fascism than in any nation at war, he said...