Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the War started, and one year she came home for the summer holidays to find the house strangely empty. Her father had gone to France. When, two years later, he came back, she had grown out of all recognition. A friend of the family's, William C. ("Pop") Fuller, had had a hand in promoting this growth. Knowing how things were apt to be with the doctor away and all, he got into the way of dropping over every afternoon and taking Helen down to the Berkeley Tennis Club. "Pop" would spread his silk handerchief on the service...
...time for her to go to college - the University of California. In her first year she was an honor student and won a scholarship for "excellence in all studies," but she managed to play tennis three times a week, summer and winter. She specialized in art courses; "Pop" Fuller had stimulated her interest in drawing; he owned some good pictures and took her every year to the exhibition of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. In 1924 she won the U. S. national title again, but lost in the Wimbledon finals to Kathleen McKane...
...Symphony Players, led by Agide Jacchia, conductor, will present the following program at tonight's pop concert in Symphony Hall: Overture to "The Magic Flute" Mozart Waltz, "Dornroeschen" (Briar Rose) Tchaikovsky Carry Mc Back to Old Virginny Bland Jacchia Fantasia, "L'Oracolo" Leoni Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Harp Solo Prelude Kovarovie (Alfred Holy) Polish Dance Scharwenka Hymn to the Sun from "Iris" Mascagni Night Dawn Sunrise Prelude to "The of Nu-rembers" Wagner Still Blon March "Lerraire" Ganne
...chairmanship of the Committee on Agriculture of the House make Gilbert Nelson Haugen a grand old man. Last week he had cause to celebrate. In the first place he had his birthday and entered upon his 68th year, and in the second place farm relief legislation began to pop to the fore, and farm relief is his business...
...saves the weasel, While pop goes the Queen...