Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week Missionaries said that their messages had reached a total of 1,000,000 people. Biggest per capita turn-out for their meetings was in Billings, Mont. (pop. 20,000) where police daily counted 2,000 to 3,000 automobiles and some 8,000 people on the fair grounds where the Mission set up camp. The Mayor of Omaha proclaimed a minute of silence on two of the mornings the preaching team was present. In Seattle 8,000 people crowded the Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings...
...Notre Dame in Knute Rockne's first year as head coach. He organized the team, got a local packing company to supply uniforms. Since 1921, when they bought a franchise in the National League, the Packers have not only made the little dairy town of Green Bay, Wis. (pop. 45,000) a U. S. sporting institution, by winning the National League championship three times, but they have made themselves the No. 1 institution of Green Bay where, unlike the members of football or baseball teams representing other cities, most of them have settled down to live, follow off-season...
...just helped Mr. Insull while he was old, sick, hunted and deserted." Said Mr. Insull: "Mme Coyimzoglu is, as I have always said, a very fine woman." Romping backstage in Memphis, cubbish Bob Crump, son of the city's Democratic Boss Edward Hull ("Ed") Crump, squirted soda-pop over Helen Morgan's white organdie Scandals costume. Irked, Torchsinger Morgan retaliated with a stiff right to the mouth...
Reading Eugene Armfield's Where the Weak Grow Strong is like trying to carry too many bundles at one time, dropping several whenever you pick up one. It begins on a July morning of 1912, when the northbound flyer whistles for Tuttle, N. C. (pop. 5,000), a dead town that contains a chair factory, a textile mill, an undue proportion of neurotic inhabitants. The whistle makes a baby cry, gives a little girl a nightmare, disturbs a dying man, awakens a bridegroom, arouses a bride. Thereafter for 395 pages, as exhaustively as a census taker, Author Armfield moves...
What Were The Facts? Being a widower, M. Salengro lived alone at Lille, Mayor of that big city (pop. 200,000) and popular for his energetic efforts among the poor. His housekeeper had cooked his dinner, left it in the warm oven, and had gone home as usual. His chauffeur went home after leaving the Minister of Interior at his door, and in Paris his secretary at the Ministry had already taken a long-distance call in which M. Salengro said that he felt tired and begged to be excused from a scheduled appointment next day with his friend...