Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt has been to the U. S. Thanks to his Legislature and the lack of any great popular upsurge in his behalf, highlight of his career to date is his pardoning of Tom Mooney...
Last week in Cardiff, Wales, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told 10,000 followers that he was no seer, that if they wanted to know what the future had in store for Europe they might as well go to Old Moore, the astrologer-author of a popular British almanac, as to ask the Head of the British Government. Others with far less opportunity for knowing what was going on in Europe were not so modest...
There, this summer, thousands of men, women & children will for the first time try their skill at badminton, most popular lawn game of the year. Practically unknown as an al fresco pastime five years ago, the British-born game of badminton-batting a shuttlecock (or "bird") back & forth over a high net-has become a U. S. vogue as quickly and ubiquitously as women's open-toed shoes...
...15th Century used to make a point of it in such dissertations as On the Beauty of the Louse. Flemish painters, whose art was an outgrowth of manuscript illumination, showed the same reverence for the minuscule, became Europe's most meticulous realists. "All this is very popular," snorted Florentine Michelangelo. "The least artistic inteligence can find therein something that appeals to it ... but it lacks rhythm and proportion. . . ." The artist who most nearly united Flemish delicacy and Italian power of composition was Hans Memling, who lived in Bruges in the second half of the 15th Century...
...Most public opinion surveys indicate that the leading popular choices for the 1940 Presidential nominations...