Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Temple Stadium at Philadelphia perhaps the dizziest game of all was staged between 67-year-old Pop Warner's Temple boys and 59-year-old Gil Dobie's Boston College boys. Trailing 19-to-26 with less than three minutes to play, Temple zoomed from one end zone to the other in just three plays (a 50-yard runback of a kickoff, an incompleted pass, and then a completed pass), booted the extra point, tied unbeaten Boston College 26-10-26. Each team scored four touchdowns, succeeded in two of its tries for the extra point, kicked wide...
...soldierly Yorkshireman of 53, who was elected last March after experience as a Liverpool bobby, promised to hand out "legitimate" news at daily conferences. Only other officers authorized to deal with newspapermen were Chief James E. Dew, whose bright red handlebar mustache has been nationally publicized on a Vox Pop radio program, and acting Inspector Sherman Lyons...
...first games he ever umpired was a clash between the Carlisle Indians and Harvard in 1908. Boasting such stars as Big Bear, Little Bear, and Rain-in-the-Face, the Indians under Pop Warner came up to Cambridge with their usual love of skullduggery. They had painted footballs on their jerseys for deceptive purposes...
...plain Ford sedan disgorged Mr. Ford at the door of the company's administration building in Dearborn. He loped into Mr. Bennett's office and called out: "Hello, boys!" Flushed and grinning, who should pop up and shake hands but Homer Martin, president of U.A.W. Then for five minutes Mr. Martin had the fun of talking with the one automaker whom U.A.W. has not yet cracked...
Readers of the diary of Samuel Pepys know the intimate scenes that pop out so unexpectedly among the humdrum entries on office work and financial difficulties- such passages as Pepys's account of his shamefaced spying on his wife Elizabeth when he thought she was too friendly with her dancing teacher, his love affair with Mrs. Bagwell after he had got her husband a job, with pert Betty after he had married her off to simple Mr. Martin, his adventures with Doll Lane, Jane Welsh, Elizabeth Whittle, Frances Tooker, and various maids who were briefly employed in the Pepys...