Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian sufferings Apollonia was sainted. Still popular, she gives her name today to many a Catholic in eastern Europe, such as Polish Actress Pola Negri, born Apollonia Chalupec. But her greatest popularity springs from the fact that she has become a patron saint of dentists.* Last week, to show that it had not waned, no less than 500 French dentists made a pilgrimage on St. Apollonia's feast day to one of her chief shrines, at La Gaude near Nice. In the parish church which contains her statue the dentists attended mass, then made merry in the village...
...about his father's farm by a Border collie. With neatness and dispatch the dogs split, drove, penned a small flock of bewildered sheep. Cracked New York's ex-Mayor James John Walker (on hand to follow Irish terriers): "This sheepherding may become very popular around town. It might be a particularly good idea for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...
Grand Old Men. Because 14 ends of curling provide about the same amount of exercise as 18 holes of golf, the game is popular with oldsters. Every sport has a Grand Old Man. But in curling every team has one. He is the skip, a venerable player whose role during the game is tantamount to dictator. Last week when Caledonia faced Schenectady at Utica, Caledonia was led by grizzled James Whyte, 75, who thinks nothing of playing 42 ends in one day. Septuagenarian Whyte, aided by his teammate. Septuagenarian A. P. Roth, outplayed the comparatively young Schenectady team, beat them...
Compared with his first novel, Starting Point shows a marked improvement-its theme is more mature, its prose less fluttery. Its four central characters are Oxford roommates: Theodore, a small, plump, precocious, post-Huxleyan cynic; effeminate, peace-loving Henry; John, a shy, radical, brilliant science student; and Anthony, popular, versatile, idealistic son of a rich, liberal M. P. The time...
...This new attitude would produce general improvement. Surely, it would not be asking too much to have a doctor provided by the Athletic Association for the big meets of the year, and possibly to secure a coach of its own by diverting some of the funds from a less popular minor sport. Skiing is going through the trouble-some early stages at Harvard, but right now all signs indicate that in a few years running on waxed boards may become the favorite pastime during the winter...