Word: popper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What does your husband call you-my wife, the missus or my woman? What do you say-a dingle, dale, gulch, dell, vale or gully? Father, pa, pop, popper, pappy, dad or daddy? Has a cherry a seed,.stone or pit? These things you may be asked if you live in New England and if during the next 15 months you do not deliberately snub or elude the inquisitive gentleman who represents the American Council of Learned Societies. Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk. To compile...
...Kowarsky '31, First Marshal, at second base, will lead a squad composed of, J. A. Marcus '31, 1b.: W.W Foshay '31, 2b.: H.A. Bettman '31, 3b.: R.U. Jameson '32 and G.K. Rugg '31, p.: H.A. Waterman, Jr. '31, l.c.; D.B. Popper '32, e.f.: Charles Brenner '32, e.f.: with D.H. Hindman '31 in reserve...
...hope to whittle down the 50 to 2 score of last year." D. H. Popper '32, manager of the team, declared, refusing to specify methods. Allegations that the phrase "whittling" implied a resort to sturdy New England methods of the days of Iroquois and Pequots were strenuously denied...
First steps in the negotiations for the 1931 renewal of what has become a traditionally annual encourter were taken when H. C. Hardy, Yale '31, forwarded to D. H. Popper '32, in charge of the Crimson team, a challenge to met on Yale grounds next Friday, and an invitation to the invaders to celebrate the occasion later in the evening...
...Popper '32 was elected vice-president of the New England Model League of Nations Assembly at a recent meeting in Pembroke College, Providence...