Word: pop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rivaled by Mr. Antheil's Ballet Mechanique or similar modernisms. The old order then will not changeth; and since the old order has been found entertaining in previous seasons there is no cause for complaint. And, besides, if one does not care for the Puccini there is the pop--and vice versa...
Devastated areas. Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas were the worst flood sufferers. In the streets of Judsonia, Ark., water reached a depth of four feet; one estimate placed 2,000,000 Arkansas acres under water. The entire town of Columbus, Ky. (pop. 654) was abandoned. Columbus, Ky., though hardly more than a village, was founded 105 years ago and at one time was considered as possible site for the national capital. Levees at Memphis, Tenn., were populous with slimy, writhing snakes, flooded out of their swampy homes...
...Mabel Youmans, 180 pounds, thrust her formidable body and glowering countenance through the door of the Sandy Field, N. Y., (pop. 120), schoolhouse one day last week. How come, she demanded of Schoolteacher Mabel Dougherty, 120 pounds, that Mrs. Abe Conklin, wife of the Sandy Field truant officer, had dared to come nosing around her farm with Abe Conklin's tin badge, impersonating an officer in the house of Deputy Sheriff and Park Policeman Youmans, (who has two badges, one of them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often...
...breathing and contemplation; carefully replaced the glass. He noted that one shoe lace seemed insecurely knotted. This situation was remedied. He noted that the other lace was not quite as it should be; leaned over; re-tied that one. After such exercise he felt uncontrollable thirst for soda pop. Purchasing a bottle from a passing vender, he sat down on the edge of the dugout; proceeded to swig politely, without haste...
...which follow. Formerly the dream element gave us a vision of fair women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew...