Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...malice: 'She is a great player. Her operation [appendix] may or may not hurt her game, but it is not her biggest handicap. I was surprised to find she is letting herself get fat. Helen is getting too big about the hips.' My coach, W. C. ('Pop') Fuller swiftly retorted for me that my figure is mathematically perfect has not varied for months...
...post-war U. S. of the '70s came one Jacob Dreicer, young pop-eyed Polish Jew, his ear-locks but recently sheared off his pious head. A sterner immigration guard would have suspected him of exopthalmic goitre. As it was, no difficulties were made against his landing at the Battery...
...Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier J. K. Fleming of New Brunswick in connection with a railway negotiation, which was later found by Canadian courts...
...traces with mock profundity the awful and mysterious path of solids and liquids through the system. As a running fire to this weighty discourse anecdotes of the great at table pop like champagne corks, snap like crunched marrow bones. There is rare eating and rich reading here...
...lead story of St. Louis's only morning newspaper, the Globe-Democrat, was a supplication to the citizens of the city. ". . . Be good sports today . . . fair to the Yanks . . . not as unsportsmanlike as painted. . . ." Readers recalled that the vigorous instincts of St. Louis baseball rooters had caused pop bottles to be banished from the stands. The team, returning from Manhattan, was given a frenzied welcome. Rain fell at midnight. It was still falling in the afternoon. Standing on the pitcher's mound, the only dry spot on the field, Jesse Haines, a garage keeper from Phillipsburg, Ohio, held...