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Word: plopping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince's mind that he might get a hole-in-one. Nevertheless, after a swing a little smoother and a click a little firmer than usual, the ball soared straight to the apron of the green, rolled between two hummocks true to the pin and, with a little plop inaudible from the tee, went in. If the Prince was surprised, he was also justly proud. It was his second hole-in-one this season. The other went in on the Sao Vicente course in Brazil during his Empire Trade Tour. The Prince plays an 85-10-90 game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Raging lions snuff at prostrate heroines, or are driven from their kill by a famine-stricken cast. Serpents lazily uncoil from a most tropical-looking tree, and plop down a scant foot or so behind the ragged hero. Horn and his gun-bearer, Renchero, swing deftly over a pool alive with crocodiles, on a dangling vine. "And through this mighty drama of a primitive world runs the beautiful love romance of a boy and girl that grips the heart"--so runs the come-hither phraseology of the advertising manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/6/1931 | See Source »

...down next to Count Magnus' nephew, Baron Friedrich von Essen (no Brahe, but heir to the Brahe estates). The silk-hatted, saturnine Majordomo of Castle Skokloster took the oars. While Sweden's King watched from the shore, Bishop, Baron and Majordomo rowed to the middle of the lake and plop went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Last of the Brakes | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...frog blinked at the clicking cameras, at the judges in the motorcar before him. Giving a terrific lunge he flew through the air, came down with a plop. Alert officials were quick to measure the distance, record it. Then the second frog was loosed upon the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: For Dogs | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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