Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course such a suggestion is vastly unpopular. Millions of citizens would take it as an intolerable personal grievance and an infringement of their rights to be excluded from voting because they thought Henry Ford invented the cotton gin, or that "daylight savings" was a kind of bank. Also it is doubtful whether any fair intelligence test for voters could be devised...
...Come and lead us" cry divers Republican Senators and Representatives; "Come and save us! We are unpopular; you are popular." Such is the plea to President Harding from those who realize that political punishment may be pending next fall. Scoring "their master's voice" when a recommendation was made to cut taxes and other wise advice was quietly offered, the G. O. P. men now turn to him when the long and unsatisfactory record of this Congress has stamped its unfavorable impression upon the public mind; probably it is too late to repent. Admittedly it is against political reason...
...mind it is a Peace of Versailles. . . . He has the look of one whose head has long been thrust out of a window gloomily expecting an accident to happen at the street corner. And General Bramwell Booth, the hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up into a little O of suction, his fingers pressing to his ear the receiver of a machine which overcomes his deafness, his whole body...
...only natural that the H. A. A. should be unpopular with those of the applicants who were disappointed. But censuring that organization will not remedy the situation in years to come. For tickets were allotted this year, not arbitrarily, to favor any one class but in accordance with a definite rule which has been in force for over a decade. Not only is the rule an old one; it was published this year in the pamphlet sent to applicants and also in the CRIMSON. We reprint from the issue of October...
...Blevitch becomes the most unpopular man in that section of the country. Every one turns to see what a man of his stamp can look like. He is so embarrassed that he slinks down in his seat and refuses to answer the call...