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...engaging, with Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is physically cultivating shows her gratitude for favors absently bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with sunny charm before this (Seacoast of Bohemia, Sicilian Noon, etc.), and once out of his Jewish bones (Day of Atonement...
...Poplar Bluffs, Mo., one Ellis Haiden, tough-palated, raked cockleburs off his mittens with his teeth. One cocklebur, three-fourths of an inch long, skidded along his tongue, down his throat; lodged in his right lung. St. Louis doctors got the bur out with a bronchoscope...
...Minister of Health Wheatly was the target of Conservative and Liberal hate. He had abrogated the imposition of surcharges upon the Poplar* Guardians for overexpenditure of borough funds in aid of the needy and unemployed. The Premier defended the Health Minister and said that the previous Government's system of surcharges was unworkable and had never been put into effect. He disarmed further opposition by promising to reform the Poor...
...Poplar is a borough of London...
...Standish A 15.Johnson, G. A., Persis Smith B 32.Johnson, G. L., Standish C 42.Johnson, O. P., ---Jolles, E., 22 Nightingale St., Dorchester.Jones, P. D., Standish C 51.Jones, W. E., Standish D 21.Jordan, H. D., Gore A 13.Kaiser, 6. B., Gore A 32.Kaplowitz, M. B., 106 Ellery St.Kaplowitz, S., *73 Poplar St.Keane, L. B., 104 Cedar St., Roxbury.Keele, A. J., Gore B 35.Kelleher, H. J., Persis Smith A 41.Kellett, V. B., Persis Smith B 52.Kelly, S. J. A., 65 Bynner St., Jamaica Plain.Kemp, V. H., George Smith C 11.Kenney, H. S., Weston.Kenyon, R. H., Gore B 35.Kestnbaum, M., Persis Smith...