Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support of the public and the rich patrons who usually make up his board of directors. He must, therefore, cater to these people, and with the money thus placed at his disposal, (usually with innumerable strings attached) he tries to maintain in the execution of his tasks not too unpopular quality standards. A difficult...
Author Mann discovers in Joseph a mystic who, like all his long line, was conscious of "the transparency of being, the characteristic recurrence of the prototype." This is the theme, unpopular in an individualistic day, which opens up like a never-ending vista from Author Mann's pages. As a mere tour de force, in revivifying the fossilized record of a universally familiar legend. Young Joseph would be a masterpiece, but it is far more than a clever conjuring trick. In this installment, which covers only a few years of Joseph's life, leaves him. at the point...
...which he is in all but name, Realmleader Hitler sat alone ahead of the congregation. Realmbishop Ludwig Muller pronounced the words of holy matrimony, almost the only thing he has done without public dispute since Catholic Hitler raised him from the rank of army chaplain to be the most unpopular head of Protestantism Germany has ever had. To Muller's question "Do you take this woman. . . ?" Göring replied "JA!" with the bellow of a drill sergeant. The State Actress answered "ja" so softly she could scarcely be heard...
Long, slim, graceful, swift, the Mauretania-like her sister ship Lnsitania-was famed for the way she sliced through waves at 25 knots, maintained such a consistent speed that her transatlantic time rarely varied by more than five minutes. A "bad roller" in heavy seas, she was unpopular with many a weak-stomached traveler. Yet in her day she probably carried more bigwigs than any other two ships together...
...send an emergency call for 500 foot and 50 mounted police because increasingly unpopular Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald that morning brusquely refused to receive a delegation of 50 unemployed. Cried their leader: "Then mark my words, tonight we'll be at the House of Commons in hundreds...