Word: hoppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casey?" wasp-waisted little wives whispered into their husbands' sideburns as young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...
...Wolf Hopper died three years ago and it was about that time that a wizened little septuagenarian from Silver Springs, Md. walked into a Washington newspaper office and presented himself as the original Casey. Dan Casey had been saying it for 50 years in his native Binghamton, N. Y., where he had worked as a trolley-car conductor since retiring from baseball, but no one had paid much attention. In Washington, however, it was different...
...International Relations, courses 18 and 30 on Contemporary International problems in Europe and Asia, were recommended for Sophomores or Juniors; Hopper, considered interesting but not profound, gives both. 14 on Nationalism in International Relations was also recommended, and Government 4 on International Law was called one of the best in college because of Professor Wild. It requires a good deal of work, such as writing reports, and should not be taken before Senior year. A new course in American Diplomatic History will be given this fall...
Aloof from the geographical battle, Representative Maury Maverick threw into the House hopper a brand-new bill to establish in the State Department an Institute of Friendly American Relations with part of its job the operation of a Government station for broadcasting to the U. S. and other American republics. The Maverick Bill specifies neither location nor cost...
...author of numerous monographs on the Far East, Arnold was also highly praised by Professor Hopper as an outstanding speaker, and a large number of "vagabonds" are expected at the lecture...