Word: popper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wyoming. Play this and you won't have to hide behind the popcorn popper as they...
...correspondents in Berlin, the invitation was an eye-popper. The Soviet-dominated Bulgarian government, which has shown little liking for U.S. newsmen, politely invited them to cover Premier Georgi Dimitrov's big Fatherland Front Congress in Sofia. The terms sounded too good to be true: there would be no censorship; the correspondents could go where they pleased, stay as long as they liked, and English-speaking Sofia newsmen would serve as interpreters...
Readers with even a 20-watt memory ought to recognize this old eye-popper. Some may recall it as a favorite parlor puzzle a decade or two ago. The late Alexander Woollcott published a breathless version in which the missing person is an elderly woman; in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' The End of Her Honeymoon (1914) it is a young husband. All are variations on the same theme: a victim vanishes, leaving no sign of his existence; in feverish haste his hotel room is refurnished, repapered or walled off. The hotelkeeper (sometimes it is the police) has reason to dispose...
...people's representatives were busy last week working for their people, whose needs were great and varied. In the vaulted chambers of the two Houses,* Senators and Representatives rose like corn in a popper, introducing legislation...
...retired from the Met in 1932, later divorced her Austrian baron, Leopold von Popper, and married Hollywood Producer Winfield R. Sheehan (who died last July). During the war she quartered G.I.s in her castle near Salzburg, and turned her California ranch into a free convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Since a Carnegie Hall concert in 1937, she has sung mostly on the West Coast...