Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little change the corset pinched and pressed its way through the War into the "corsetless era," which was not corsetless at all. It was the age of the girdle. Millions of stout women kept on buying corsets. The slimmer ones took to the girdle. When the word corset became unpopular, corset-makers shrewdly substituted the "foundation garment." At the beginning of Depression the Paris couturiers, sick of the tube dress, came to their rescue by raising the waistline, dropping the skirt. "Foundation garments" became a practical necessity. The corset-makers frankly admitted for the first time that women...
...Stars & Stripes Harold Ross had carried home the outlines of a formula for a magazine to be written and edited strictly for one class of readers. Its blood and bone was to be delicate but honest humor and satire, written up to the standards of its editors, deliberately unpopular with the masses. With caviar for editorial fare, the buying power of its readers would be assured, and its advertising could be easily sold on this basis. Thus, Harold Ross's journalistic hand held a pair of aces at the start. To play it, he needed a tall stack of blue...
First there are the Boston Nazis, a very unpopular little group, then the Harvard Nazis, and the Anti-Nazis, the National Student League, which doesn't like the Nazis, the New England League Against War and Fascism, which doesn't care much for any of the preceding organizations, and finally the Anti-National Student League, which seems to be the Harvard R. O. T. C. in disguise...
...year ago that withered little lemur of a man, Mahatma Gandhi, was the best beloved person in all India. But during the past twelvemonth St. Gandhi has almost entirely abandoned his popular anti-British civil disobedience campaign for his unpopular campaign to break the caste system and liberate Hindu Untouchables. Driving into Buxar last week, St. Gandhi's automobile was waylaid by an angry, hooting crowd which smashed windshield, windows and hood, hurt everyone in the car but St. Gandhi. Deeply depressed, the Mahatma planned a three-week fast as penance. It was the first recorded attack on India...
First, most spectacular move was to declare a moratorium for at least two years on amortization payments on $52,000,000 owed U. S. bondholders. This $4,037,000 annual load had been borne faithfully by Tyrant Machado and his successors. It was naturally the most unpopular thing in Cuba and the moratorium instantly fortified Mendieta's government in the hearts of the people. But Mendieta will continue to pay the interest charges of $2,868,000 a year and he will continue to collect all the taxes ordinarily earmarked for amortization payments. The decree affects two loans floated...