Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of a storm of booings and hisses Stage Manager Big Bill Thompson has been obliged to ring the curtain down rather hurriedly on King George. Unlike his royal son the sovereign has proved unpopular, even in the comparatively fat role of arch-villain. And there was racing and chasing behind the scenes until they found the very sets to be rushed on and save the reputation of the house--the big flood scenes of the Mississippi River. Human interest, gripping incidents and, looking east'ard to the sea, timeliness...
During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Mecklenburg Dragoons, but in the spring of 1917 was transferred to diplomatic duty as representative of the Wilhelmstrasse (German Foreign Office) at general headquarters and later represented the Chancellor on the Eastern front, where he made himself so thoroughly unpopular by opposing the militarists that he was transferred to The Hague, Netherlands. After the war he was called to the Foreign Office first as head of the Eastern Department and after as State Secretary of Foreign Affairs - the permanent head of the German Foreign Office. His greatest diplomatic ordeal...
...said that 55,800,000 people are served by city mailmen; 31,600,000 people by rural mailmen. The remaining 29,600,000 inhabitants of the U. S. either go to postoffices for their letters or, being too young, unpopular or obscure, presumably get no letters...
...sole boast to uniqueness that this combat might have had is in the characters of the principals. One was touted--to the death--as a student prince; the other made an odd comeback to popularity by emphasizing those qualities which once made him an unpopular champion--brute force and a marvelous thickness of skin as regards what the public had to say concerning him. The gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst...
...Marshall Foch and many another highest endorser of American Legion's proposed reunion in Paris on the tenth anniversary of the A. E. F.'s appearance on French soil, seriously doubted the wisdom of turning 15,000 Americans loose in a country where Americans had become distinctly unpopular. Was that unpopularity wholly erased -by the stabilization of the French franc, the debt negotiations, the visit of Heroes Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd...