Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
...decade the citizens of placid little Le Mars, Iowa (pop. 4,700) have been puzzled by the goings on of tall, statuesque Mrs. Maybelle Trow Knox. Her neighbors knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
...another try with a concert in Manhattan's Majestic Theatre. This time Manhattanites, finally aware of who she was, thronged the theatre, stamped and yelled, gaped at castanet playing that would have made Gene Krupa sit up, footwork (zapateado) that would have made Bill Robinson's eyes pop. Though Dancer Argentinita is known to be an ardent Spanish Loyalist, Manhattan's Spaniards called an armistice for an evening. Both Leftists and Rightists turned out to give her a big hand...
Three years ago Mrs. John Gasparotti, wife of the chief engineer of the City Ice & Fuel Co. of Moberly, Mo. (pop. 13,772) got an idea for a novel. Mornings, after her four children were off to school, she hustled through the housework by 9:30, wrote until a lunch deadline at 11:30. Afternoons she could sometimes squeeze in a couple of hours more. The book soaked up distractions the way butter soaks up the flavor of fish in the icebox. Odd-moment writing gave her prose an odd-moment style...
...Delaney, who user to panic them at the Majestic, Eddie Nugent is a stand-out in a pretty good cast. Perey Kilbridge is excellent as Pop Clifford, who travels around the country "straightening out" his son-in-laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room...