Word: plopping
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...