Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horse was Peter Manning, world's champion trotter. The ceremony he and those present were joining in commemorated the death, one day before, of his owner and 'driver, Edward F. ("Pop") Geers, most no table of all reinsmen. Rounding a turn behind his mare Miladi Guy, Geers had been catapulted from his seat when the mare fell, had fractured his skull, died unconscious. He was to have driven Peter Manning one last race, to try and beat the mile record again before retiring...
...Pop" Geers, at 73, was the great figure of the U. S. trotting turf. He will remain its great legend. He trained, drove, loved horses from early boyhood, which began in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn. He brought more horses under the wire first than any other driver in the history of light harness racing. Their winnings aggregated nearly two million. He was a seasoned driver in the high-wheeled sulky days of Maude S. and Jay-Eye-See and created a sensation in 1892 by driving Nancy Hanks a mile in 2 :04 hitched to the new ball-bearing, pneumatic...
William J. Bryan: "On my way to the Democratic Convention, I was interviewed between swallows of strawberry pop, in a soft drink palace at Olean, N. Y. 'What do you think of Nicholas Murray Butler's stand on Prohibition?' asked a reporter. Said I: 'Nicholas Murray Butler is a disgrace to the educated world...
...brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations, in a way that will probably confuse all but those who have grown up with the original operetta...
...Pop Questions that Do Not Matter a Tittle