Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Charleston, S. C. Timesman Charles McLean found 300 whites and 145 Negroes dabbling at a road between their separate camps, mile apart. At an abandoned CCCamp near Blaney, S. C. (pop. 200) some 265 veterans were slowly turning a fish pond into a swimming pool. At Kingstree, S. C., whose 3000 residents are about half Negro, 200 campers were pulling up pine trees preparatory to laying out a golf course...
Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...
...young male buyer she has met at a merchandise fair, while her less comely comrades go to bed at 8 o'clock. Sometimes she will be taken to the theatre by someone who wants her trade. Ugly or pretty, every buyer is continually hounded by salesmen who pop up in hotel lobbies, deliver rousing sales talks by telephone and telegram...
...Carolina outbreak because there, a statistically useful number of children have been vaccinated against the disease. Manhattan's Dr. Maurice Brodie has sent 600 doses of Park-Brodie vaccine (TIME. Nov. 26 et ante) to the infected area. Of these doses, 400 were concentrated in Greensboro, N. C. (pop.: 53,569). The U. S. Public Health Service, which has sponsored Park-Brodie vaccine, knows of no vaccinated child who has developed infantile paralysis...
...people who cheer loudest when you succeed are those who throw pop bottles the hardest when you fail. . . . Loud cheers make heroes. Pop bottles make martyrs. ... I knew an old priest once. His hair was white, his face shone. ... I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base...