Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alexander apparently delighted in shocking not only the bourgeois but his fellow Romanoffs. News of his two brothers' execution by the Bolsheviks did not prevent his attending a dinner party. No very ardent believer in the divine right of kings, he held the unpopular view that the Romanoffs were out of Russia for good; in 1919 he bet the members of the U. S. Delegation in Paris that "within the next 20 years nothing would be left of the Treaty of Versailles and that the Soviets were to endure in Russia...
...dull to insist on further proof of the patent greatness of Bernard Shaw. Almost alone of our contemporaries, he has had a divine consistency. One may, like Mr. Chesterton, disapprove of his principles, but he cannot trap Mr. Shaw into applying those principles falsely. A brave regularity in an unpopular position is always an admirable thing, but Mr. Shaw has made it inspiring and pleasant also. He may be, as Lenin said "a good man fallen among Fabians," but he is certainly not as Mr. McCabe once charged so ineptly "quite as entertainer." For to entertain merely is far beneath...
...Firestone's brand has never been relished by the heads of his three potent competitors-Goodyear's Litchfield, U. S. Rubber's Davis, Goodrich's Tew. Until last fortnight when Mr. Tew assumed the unpopular rôle, Mr. Firestone almost always took the lead in slashing prices. But so fast flew the chit-chat about their opinions of Mr. Firestone that when Mr. Firestone wrote his stockholders last fortnight that he was cutting not prices but dividends, he declared: "There has been much said, written and portrayed by cartoons to promote the thought that there...
...Macintosh case, unpopular as it was with liberal thinkers, had good basis in law. It was formed on precedent and on accepting the Constitution as it stands. It pointed out "that citizenship is a high privilege, and when doubts exist concerning a grant of it, generally at least, they should be resolved in favor of the United States against the claimant." But it is doubtful that the act of 1906 which determined the qualifications for naturalization implied that a man should not be naturalized if, because of religious belief, he is opposed to war or unwilling to support arms...
Literarily speaking, Brother Julian and Sister Anne Green are not on speaking terms. Unpopular Brother Julian writes serious psychological tragedies, about as intelligent and depressing as they come. Best-selling Sister Anne dashes off entertaining stuff about far-from-highbrow worldlings. Her conversational style is growing on her to such an extent that she no longer bothers very much to punctuate: " 'We are heading for the Luxembourg gardens, will you sit there with me for a moment, I'll drive you home, I bet that you dine at half-past seven...