Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Family, laboring to preserve their impartiality and promote the unity of Belgium, had recently grown unpopular among some of their Flemish subjects. Proof: Crown Prince Leopold and Queen Elisabeth have been hissed and booed within the past year at Antwerp, Malines, Louvain. The obvious remedy seemed to lie in a discreet, informal holiday to be taken by Her Majesty among the wandering canals and soft green meadows of reposeful Flanders...
...Monarchists will be lucky to win 80 seats out of 400 in June. Three things, said he, may split the Republicans, make possible a restoration of the monarchy in the not too near future: the growth of Communism and Syndicalism, the separation of Catalonia and the Basque provinces, an unpopular Moroccan policy. But to start the ball rolling, a united Royalist front is imperative...
...editor of the London Nation & Athenaeum; later started a monthly magazine of his own, the Adelphi. In Son of Woman he says he founded the Adelphi purely as a vehicle for Lawrence, and expected that Lawrence would come back to England to edit it. One of the most unpopular literary men in England, Murry was the original of the cruelly pilloried Editor Burlap in Aldous Leonard Huxley's Point Counter Point...
...many things that can be and are being said about love, Author Goodman has chosen to voice the cynical. He pleads an unpopular cause, but the cases he presents make their occasional point. Of these 17 short stories not one gives aid & comfort to romantic love...
...Grady had called the Dictator "Soviet Russia's most powerful and most unpopular citizen," had told a joke on him which she said was going the rounds of Moscow purely as a joke, not as a true story. The joke...