Word: hoipolloi
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...Texaco and usually between 700 and 800 people are at his broadcasts. But he has never completely shaken his fear of the "mike." fear that his listeners, estimated at 20 millions now, are not laughing. The Texas Co. hired him with the idea of reaching the vast hoipolloi. For a time it was worried when fan letters poured in from tycoons and the intelligentsia. Now it is satisfied that Ed Winn simply makes everybody laugh...
...chanted skeptical and disrespectful members of hoipolloi upon reading in the press last week that young Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and young Marshall Field had been elected to the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera Company at a special stockholders' meeting. "Both," explained the stockholders, "are serious music lovers." It was this statement, more than the rather unusual honor, that irritated the chanting representatives of the vulgate. They themselves, in their innocent rhymes and naive ditties, displayed a fondnes for music which, they were keenly conscious, has never been recognized with a directorate in any company whatever. They definitely...