Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general motive of "Dr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" is to burlesque the prevailing type of mystery play. The action of the play takes place at "Aunt Margaret's Manor House in Northern Vermont,--one quart's pop from the Canadian border." The complications of the play are due to the combined efforts of Peggy's ardent admirers and various mysterious personages such as bootleggers, spirits, and members of the Ku Klux Klan...
Hans Wagner, former Pittsburgh shortstop, was a .300 hitter for 17 seasons. The late " Pop " Anson of Chicago batted above .300 during 20 campaigns, but not consecutively...
...having a "compromising" supper party. Mrs. A catches a bun. Suddenly the whole cast begins arriving. From fire-escapes, closets, bathroom, through sawed panels and from behind couches, uncles, grandfathers, husbands and detectives pop suddenly into being. And such a slamming of doors and banging of windows and cries of " My God, what are you doing here ?" B's fiancee appears in time to render affairs positively catastrophic...
...Already a terrifying collection has been accumulated, including "practical ways of utilizing the tides", "a process to make fiannel unshrinkable", and "glass that will bend". Although this last commodity has been put on the market before, it has failed to make a place for itself along with "Pyrex" and pop-bottles, and so it is up for election again...
...Maine Night" at the Pop Concerts is scheduled for 8.15 o'clock this evening in Symphony Hall. The program will be as follows: Pomp and Circumstance, Elgar Overture to "Merry Wives of Windsor", Nicolai Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube", J. Strauss Fantasia, "Aida", Verdi Marche Slave, Tchaikovsky Ave Maria, Schubert-Wilhelmj Anitra's Dance, Grieg Rhapeody, "Espana", Chabrier Invitation to the Dance, Weber Prelude, Rachmaninov Procession of the Sardar, Ippolitov-Ivanov