Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop Hill, Ill. (pop. 208), site of one of earliest Swedish religious communes in the Midwest, was all astir last week. Carpenters were busily plugging a hole carelessly burned in the Old Colony Church roof last April while townsfolk prepared to feed several thousand visitors next week at a picnic to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the purchase from the U. S. Government of the Bishop Hill colony's land. Simultaneously, the attention of U. S. art critics was being called to Bishop Hill because it had just been discovered that the Old Colony Church housed the nation...
...ended for the nonce all Puritan sobriety, and the Vagabond tried hard to partake of twentieth-century gaiety, with only John Harvard's likeness and the glow of the dancing torch-flames to remind of the celebrated past. The Pop Concert popped, and the merry ones sipped and stepped away the night, and a weary Vagabond crawled off to bed, already envying his progeny-to-be their four-hundredth birthday party...
...POP CONCERT DANCE. Memorial Hall, 10.00 to 2.00 o'clock. Students will be admitted at the south side door on presentation of Tercentenary Pass. Ticketes may be secured for ladies by applying at the Crimson Building. The dance will be free; light refreshments and beer will be sold in the Delta of Memorial Hall where tables will be available. Members of the Class of 1936 may obtain tickets to this dance at the Crimson Building. INFORMAL DRESS...
...cotton-growing South is excited about the Rust cotton-picker. The Memphis Press-Scimitar and a few other newspaoers were enthusiastic. Most Southern papers, however, declared in effect that even if the picker were good they would not like it. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal printed a cartoon of a pop-eyed old darky trailing an empty cotton-sack and exclaiming: "Ef'n it doose mah wuk-whose wuk I gwine do?" The Jackson, Miss. Daily News, unimpressed by the fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists and have promised to cushion the impact of the machine on Negro...
...wanted to see eight eyes pop," said this prime U. S. patron...