Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engraving in particular illustrates this devotion to realistic detail. Objects of the least significance to the central theme pop up in odd corners of the picture, and a small insect placed near the feet of the Virgin for no apparent reason and drawn with biological accuracy has caused this picture to be known as "The Holy Family with Grasshopper...
Unlike Edward VII, who came to the throne at 59 with many long-cultivated acquaintances among British statesmen, Ed ward VIII is to the Prime Minister and executives of the British Empire almost a stranger - a singularly young-looking man of 41 whom they are accustomed to see pop in at a banquet, toy briefly with cold chicken washed down by Scotch & splash while others chomp the hot roast-beef of Old England, and then, after delivering a brief address, pop...
...quite untrue that Edward of Wales always popped off to a night club. He often popped off to rove restlessly and sympathetically about the slums, exclaiming at scenes of squalor "How ghastly!", but he did pop off, often with Americans and nearly always to points beyond the orbit of those responsible British states men over whom the new King must now reign while they rule. For the sheer energy of this light, lean King the ruled class have a special liking, because to them so many British employers seem languid and over fed. Edward VIII is appropriately a "snappy" King...
...Thomas did not pop a suspender button last week as he did at his first Philharmonic concert in 1928. He was not suffering from gout nor had he tumbled into the first violins at rehearsal (TIME, March 14, 1932). But Sir Thomas always affords sure entertainment. He strolled on stage as casually as if he were taking an everyday turn in the park. He bowed leisurely, shrewdly appraised his audience. Then with a bounce he was up on the stand, swinging his baton as if it were a cricket bat, crouching, dancing, shaking his fist, whipping along a performance which...
...King of Greece but his Throne trembled last week as he sought to master Greece's ousted Dictator. King of Kings, In 1935 there was just one man who rose out of murky obscurity and carried his country with him up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world. But for the hidden astuteness of this man, there would not now be the possibility of another world war arising out of idealism generated around the League of Nations in behalf of Ethiopia. But for His Majesty Haile Selassie the year 1935 would have been a distinctly different year...