Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today's should be an interesting race even if Columbia has not developed enough to make it a close one, for the Lion's style of rowing is the antithesis of that taught here by Tom Bolles. Under a system devised by Old dick 'Pop' Glendon, this Light Blue style involves the use of a slow recovery, a long reach, a long layback...
With Arthur Fiedler conducting, the Pop Concert season will open tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: Cortege from "Mlada" Rimsky-Korsakov Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark Minuet Beizoni Russian Dances A. Tcherepnin Austrian Peasant Music Schonherr Festivo from "Scenes historiques" Sibelius Marche Slave Tchaikovsky "Tales from the Vienna Woods" Strauss "The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Orchestral paraphrase by L. Caillet) The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
...audience tittered nervously, and shrewd Neville Chamberlain followed up with the handsome announcement that he proposed to abolish the "trousers tax" of 15 shillings a year, which every Briton who employs a manservant has hitherto had to pay. After this he got down to brass tacks and his pop-eyed listeners learned how the British Government proposes to pay for its five-year $7,500,000,000 rearmament program...
Impressed by the get-off of the favorites, Scofield said, "They passed us like a shot." Still bemoaning cramps late last night, he announced, "We had hoped to get to Wellesley (14 miles), but some of the hills stopped us." Undigested pop given by their automobile follower was also classed as a hindrance. "At first I thought we had been given beer, but whatever it was, it was impossible to keep it down...
What bustle and excitement is a parade! It keeps sewing circles and church socials chattering for weeks before and days afterwards. It makes Pop misplace his glasses just fifteen minutes before the first band swings past Lexcord Green; Sally must have her face washed twice as a double protection against dirt; and Ma thinks, as the car turns the corner, that she didn't close the icebox door. For the neighbors know how long all the bands between Framingham and Lowell have been eking practice sounds out of trumpets, drums, bass horns, and still worse horns. Uniforms have been brushed...