Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Performers of world prominence who have broadcast for B. B. C. include Basso Chaliapin, Pianist Paderewski, Amos 'n' Andy (who proved unpopular), Paul Robeson (popular), G. B. Shaw and the late, great Danseuse Pavlova. (Today B. B. C. eschews and frowns upon such "stunts" as broadcasting Mme Pavlova's dancing footsteps, popular though they proved in 1924, 1925 and 1927, accompanied by ballet music...
Communications. For the last year the Post Office Department has been begging Congress to increase the first-class postal rate to make that letter service self-sustaining. So unpopular was the request that not a single Congressman could be found to introduce the necessary legislation. Yet last week the House upped the rate from 2¢ to 3¢ without a struggle. Estimated yield...
Lest this move prove unpopular, the Soviet Press played up that same day a "human touch" story like those which have made the British Royal Family so popular...
...lacerated the mucous membrane on the side. I coughed blood and was hoarse for several days." Tunney won the decision and "after the excitement in the dressing room subsided, I went to a small hotel, and had several pots of tea." Tunney blames himself for becoming "the most unpopular of all the heavyweight champions. ... I goaded and I gloated. I richly deserved what I got. None [of the other champions] . . . ever received the almost general disapproval as rapidly as I did. This was new to me. . . . The new path I was traveling was leading directly to the land...
...support to some one of the major candidates may prove important, but his past record does not designate him as the logical selection for a deadlocked convention. His reputation rests upon his success as an inquisitor, revealing corruption and discovering rascals by means of Senatorial investigations. He is highly unpopular in some quarters...