Word: unpopularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours between 7:30 a. m. and midnight? Among other things, he was onetime Judge Advocate General (legal head) of the U. S. Army and its ablest lawyer in many a year. He was the chief author of the selective draft law? an achievement as difficult as it was unpopular. In Cuba, he ably unraveled another thankless knot. As one of the makers of its organic law, as personal representative of President Harding, as U. S. Ambassador since 1923, no man has done more to take the chaos out of Cuba than Major General Crowder...
...that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything the season has witnessed. For that reason, it may prove unpopular...
...strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers struck during the general strike and 750,000 miners remained out until the last bitter weeks of the coal strike? To answer these unpopular questions, Chancellor Churchill sat down four square on his facts last weak, presenting his budget to the Commons as the one logical answer to a problem stated by Fate...
Author Deeping has all the facility which should be his after a decade of writing unpopular novels. He has not, however, added to this facility any of the qualities which make the books remembered. His people are seen through the wide end of the telescope; they are not Individuals through whom a type Is suggested, but rather flat and insignificant figures glimpsed through the blurring lens of gen- erality. A man of little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse...
...remains a question to be determined solely by the discretion of the trial judge, which the appellate tribunal is not at liberty to correct. Mr. Frankfurter has nothing to say about the interesting ruling of the Supreme Court that it is permissible to question a man about unconventional and unpopular political opinions that he may hold in order to test for the jury his credibility as a witness in his own behalf when he is on trial for murder...