Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Shore's presence would increase the gate, he was allowed to play last week. Before the game, which Toronto won handily, 7 goals to 3, he and Bailey shook hands, chatted for a moment at the centre of the rink. Shore, once the most unpopular player in the league, was thereafter cheered for every play he made...
...soft roll lapel in grey, blue-grey, blue or brown, with trousers of worsted in similar colors. Only a derby may be worn with it, in blue, grey or brown. But, warns the committee, "Al Smith's turn on the New Deal . . . has made the brown derby very unpopular.'' Champagne coats, designed like the dinner jackets, come in blue, quaker grey, bisque, green and champagne, may be worn with black welt-seamed trousers...
Some comfort to harassed Mr. Gandhi was the arrest at Annand last week for the sixth time of Mrs. Gandhi, a disciple whose example of martyrdom grows more precious as other disciples desert the Mahatma. Since he deserted the popular cause of trying to free India for the unpopular one of trying to gain equality for India's "untouchables" his prestige has steadily waned. At Nagpur last month scurrilous Indians even pelted eggs at St. Gandhi, missed their mark...
Spunky Newfoundlanders, famed for the free & easy way they have of pummeling an unpopular premier and smashing furniture in their Government Offices when aroused, were scathingly told by a Royal Commission last week that in Newfoundland "a continuing process of greed, graft and corruption has left few classes of the community untouched by its insidious influence...
Last but not least of the four heroes is Pietro Aretino, the bastard guttersnipe whose effrontery and wit always kept him in high society and hot water, whose scurrilous lampoons lambasted everyone from the Pope down. One of his mildest japes: when unpopular Pope Adrian VI died, a wreath appeared on his doctor's door, inscribed: "To the Deliverer of his country, S. P. Q. R." Of the four, Aretino's end was happiest. After tremendous ups & downs he settled in Venice, waxed fat and urbane, survived a tragic love affair and went down wenching...