Word: pop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Population 9,150. Largest city in the state is Fargo, pop. 24,921. More people live in Boston or St. Louis than in all of North Dakota...
...Santo Domingo (pop. 900,000) and Haiti share the same island, named Hispaniola (Little Spain) by Columbus in 1492. Here the Santa Maria grounded, was abandoned...
...long train chugs into a little station on the outskirts of the Big City. It comes to a stop, comes to life. Men pop out of its doors. In a moment there is amazing activity. Torches held in brawny hands provide light. Neighing horses are driven in dozens down shadowy ramps. Behind them come lumbering elephants, single file. Men lift down great, gaudy cages. A flickering light reveals the prisoners-lions, bears, monkeys, the population of the Ark itself. And men and women-tiny men and tiny women, tall men and tall women, thin men and fat women, tattooed...
...year-old Viscount slammed the door on reporters and cameramen. "Now perhaps you guys will leave my pop alone," he jeered...
...such silliness did not submerge the occasional excellence of the exhibition. Patterning after the Paris Salon des Independants in its opposition to tight orthodoxies, the Society of Independent Artists provides a more exciting display than conservative bodies like the National Academy. Such reputable painters as John Taylor Arms, Pop Hart, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Walter Pach. John Sloan (president of the Society) and Claggett Wilson were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon...