Word: plopping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astonished Balkan natives beheld last week the spectacle of a great white yacht from which small white objects flew, each with a sharp ping as it left the deck and a plop as it was lost in the Adriatic. Each ping-plop cost about 15 dinars, the peasants learned, and in the rural Balkans that is enough to buy a needed shirt or a night's drunken carouse (35?). They had always heard that "the English Milords are all rich" and they could well believe it last week, watching King Edward & Friends drive off his chartered...
...annoyed at charges of campus radicalism. Breaking up a meeting of the pinko League for Industrial Democracy one warm, moonlight night, they grabbed the leaders, dragged them down to Lake Mendota. "For God's sake, fellows," remonstrated a professor who happened upon the scene, "think of the University." Plop! Plop! Plop! Into chilly Lake Mendota went three howling Leaguers...
None of them saw or heard a bedraggled bundle of feathers whisk out of the lowering sky, plop softly on the Manhattan's sun deck. Soprano Mario, striding briskly, stumbled over it. Mrs. Garson hurried up, agreed that it looked like a mop. To Vibrato it looked like a warm hideaway. He hopped out of his mistress' muff, tried to bury himself in its folds. Only then did the two women discover that the "mop" was an exhausted...
...suing for divorce. He smirked to the audience: "I'm very glad to be back in the City of the Angels. You know, I married an angel." When he opened his mouth to sing, Whiz! went an egg hurled by a girl in the front row. Plop! a second egg spattered against the backdrop, dribbled down to the floor. Plop! Plop! Plop! Baritone Hutton lumbered off stage. As stage hands mopped up the eggs, police arrested one Jane Thomas. Next day she paid $5 fine per egg, declared: "I believe it was worth it." Mrs. Hutton remarked: "Wasn...
...Exposition. Expected, after viewing complicated manoeuvers of spectacular science, were, at least, a handful of clocks, or perhaps a gigantic hourglass. Thanks to a far-seeing director, no mechanical movement is in evidence. Even the visitors to the building are restricted in activity, and are content to plop their beer-saturated bodies into the chairs, and curtail the movement of their gum-chewing jaws...