Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening. Under the fascinating title of The Nebblepredders it is reasonable to suppose that the incurably curious, a considerable group, would have patronized pasteboard peddlers.. But the reigning dynasty thought otherwise and just called it any old thing, spelled as above. The Nebblepredders were the family concerned?Pop Nebblepredder, Ma Nebblepredder, Herbie Nebblepredder, Eva Nebblepredder, Elmer Nebblepredder, Josie Nebblepredder?all Nebblepredders. A Nebblepredder, that is to say these Nebblepredders, were poor Nebblepredders. Their hope and true salvation was Elmer Nebblepredder, who earned $20 a week. Other Nebblepredders nibbled at his salary ceaselessly, particularly Ma Nebblepredder, whose false teeth took...
...seals for unsound and unscientific purposes. This income has totaled $47,500,000 between 1907 and 1927. Dr. Fishberg's point was that the money was used largely to educate the public to prevent tuberculous infection. But it is well known that 90% of the U. S. urban pop- ulation carry tubercle bacilli, which are often immunizing factors...
...says the U. S. Constitution, "that office" being the Presidency. Amid last week's boomings was heard some shrill, legalistic pop-gunnery to the effect that Herbert Clark Hoover was ineligible for the Presidency because in 1914 and for several years thereafter he was directing war relief work in Europe...
...very dreary. In goes on for hours and hours and then it gets worse. Strange manifestations pile up. Lights flicker, screams resound, bodies pop up everywhere, Hymns are sung off stage, the bodies that have popped up disappear, and then what do you suppose? It all turns out to be a mean fraud staged by the wicked silk smugglers to scare people away from the scene of their activities. Mercy, we were nonplussed...
...Mightier Richard still blinded the young composers of the day, sending tunes from Tristan and Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss. The story, as it was played, followed an old Dutch legend of a mid-summer festival with bonfires & a burgomaster's daughter & a bookish boy too long boxed up. Philadelphia critics, as well...