Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following program will be given at the Pop corner in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Overture in O minor Foroni Meditation from "Thais" Massenet (Solo violin: Julius Theodorowicz) Suite, "Namouna" talo Theme with Variations Fete Foraine Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dresm" Mendelssohn Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak "Les Preludes," Symphonic Poem List Overture to "Cinderells" Bossint "Molly on the Shore" Grainger Marche Slary Tehafxovsky
...lashing a screaming line drive to deep left center. Captain Savage, who was Harvard's Jonah for the day, appeared from nowhere and speared the ball backhanded with his gloved hand. Cutts followed with a double, but the next two batters died. R. C. Sullivan '28 on a pop fly, and J. P. Chase '28 on a called third strike...
...smart set of Des Moines (pop. 148,900), biggest city in Iowa, often amuse themselves with a parlor game: a modern variation of famed tiddledywinks. An ashtray is placed on the floor. The players (any number from two to eight), equipped with dimes and quarters, squat. In turn, they use their quarters to try to flick their dimes into the ashtray in a graceful arc. It is a game requiring firm thumbs, keen eyes. It was invented by that skillful player, John Cowles, 29, who is to Des Moines what a dynamo is to a powerhouse...
...coats of watchers at a six-day race show spots from the drop that runs down a bottle of pop when you drink out of it. Their heads keep turning from side to side as if they were rapidly reading the page of a book a block wide. All week in Madison Square Garden drops fell onto coats and faces turned from side to side, from side to side, all morning, all afternoon, all night, for six days. And round the pale pine dish the riders pedaled, jammed, sprinted, drank beef juice out of paper cups, pasted their burned legs...
...only speculate as to the treatment accorded the Great Temperance Movement by one who was not brought up in the American atmosphere of W. C. T. U. tent meetings, Carrie Nation, and soda pop. A mere St. George-and-the-dragon plot would be trite, unless handled in a novel manner. On second thought, it seems that the choice of the epic form has not all the advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form...