Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady carried in her deep-springed victoria an asthmatic, wrinkly pug; when the automobile was young, a goggling bulldog sat by the goggled driver; the mannish post-War girl and her fox terrier trotted side by side. Calvin Coolidge's white collie Rob Roy, Katharine Cornell's flop-eared cocker Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street started fashions. But from year to year the $75.000,000-per-year dog business finds Westminster's best a prime fashion factor, lor the choice of the No. 1 judge in the No. 1 dog show tends to become...
With its widely-heralded spelling contest a flop, the Lampoon editors retired into the inner depths of their pie-shaped building last night after a humiliating 23-2 defeat at the hands of the Wellesley newspaperwomen...
...Hall concerts. They managed to keep time with each other, played as well as some orchestras do under some conductors. But the electric fusion of tone that would have been brought forth by a Toscanini, a Stokowski or a Furtwangler was completely lacking. Financially the venture was a dismal flop...
...fastest flip-flop ever executed by the Supreme Court was on the constitutionality of State minimum wage laws for women. In invalidating New York State's minimum wage law in June 1936, it created a legal "no man's land" from which both State and Federal legislation was barred. In March 1937, the Court adroitly reversed itself, to uphold an analogous Washington statute...
...other picture. After we heard all the shouting, we sat back and tried to analyze what made it good. Then we tried consciously to put some social meaning into The Golden Touch. It ended with King Midas surrounded by his gold, hollering for a hamburger. It was a tremendous flop...