Word: pop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal Whip David Lloyd George popped many a stinging comment in his coarsest and least happy vein. Labor Whip Ramsay Macdonald egged on J. H. Thomas, usually one of the calmest Laborites, to make no less than twelve disparaging orations. Meanwhile sleepy members formed quartets and sang the U. S. Civil War ditty "John Brown's Body" to keep awake. Recitations of "Pop Goes the Wease"? were loudly applauded in the lobbies, while one right honorable member chanted...
...four dozen soft-boiled (2½ min.) hen's eggs, in 45 minutes. At the 37th egg he choked, gasped out, "That egg was rotten." As the 48th mingled with its predecessors, he unfolded himself, arose, collected a bet ($10) and the price of his orgy, paid the pop-eyed waitress, stalked through the crowd and made for his rooms...
...held in the Boston Symphony Hall as usual, but the Committee plan to have it of a somewhat different nature from the Pop concerts of the past. They intend to make it more distinctly a Freshman party with a well rounded program of entertainment. During the concert by the Freshman Glee Club which will be the first feature of the evening, the audience will be seated at tables where food will be provided...
Wednesday. Rain again. A reporter told me that William C. ("Pop") Fuller, who has coached me simply for ages, had given out a statement to the effect that I had a good chance against the Lenglen woman, and that my plan of battle had all been figured out before I left California. Pop said that I would drive hard, and aim at the corners of the court; the reporter wanted to know if this was true. . . I am afraid it is. And it is also true that I am going to play with a wooden racket, and a felt-covered...
...from the day when the first fall practice beguns until after Thanksgiving, unless one is a mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans put forth elevens that range the country fighting for national recognition. The papers play up their prowess. Individual players, little colleges, pop into the limelight overnight. And over all and through all blow the tart autumn breezes, whipping up the flames in the follage, and in the girls cheeks, and filling the heart of man with a desire for heroism. To go to college and play football has the same attraction...