Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Painleve has twice been forced to resign as Premier of France since October (TIME, Nov. 9, 30). At present he is War Minister in the Cabinet of M. Briand, and spends his days amid the desperate vexations of trying to conduct the two most unpopular wars ever waged by France (those in Syria and in Morocco). Amid all these distractions he has kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate...
...once a notable stir was created in Paris. Numerous papers, led by Le Matin, demanded that Captain Canning should be fully heard and every effort made to put an end to the expensive and unpopular war which France is waging in Morocco (TIME, Dec. 28 et ante). Meanwhile the Foreign Office coquetted with the idea of giving official cognizance to a purely self-styled envoy...
...TIME, Dec. 7) was cleverly exploited by M. Briand to make his own triumph the greater when he succeeded. One Frenchman said to another, "What if it were all a put up job: a deal whereby Doumer, who has the Senate solidly behind him, should succeed the brilliant but unpopular Loucheur, and slide necessary tax measures of a less drastic nature through the Chamber...
When men of known worth lend their names to unpopular causes, observers are apt to look closely to see if they can discover some value, hitherto overlooked, in the thing advocated. Among unpopular issues, one of the least favored is the campaign of certain churchmen to close all theatres, playgrounds, amusement parks on Sundays, and limit the amusement of the public to churchgoing, which these churchmen consider amusement enough. Last week the "Lord's Day alliance," as these churchmen call their association, held its annual meeting in Manhattan, appointed a committee to report judges and county officials who belittle...
...pandemonium, for it was a fact patent to all that if burly Berlenbach ("the Astoria Assassin") did not get up shortly, Delaney would be the light-heavyweight champion of the world. For a moment everybody began to feel sorry for the prone ex-taxi-driver, one of the most unpopular plug-uglies that has ever held a world's title, but yet an individual that few people have had the opportunity to feel sorry for. It is true that his face is the face of an assassin, true that his style of fighting is, to say the least, ungracious...