Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above Hankow reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard...
...unconfirmed report said that farther upstream the City of Ichang (pop. 60,000) disappeared with a woosh, was "wiped out." But all this was merely the doing of the Yangtze ("Willow") River, sometimes called "The River of Golden Sand" by poets because of its yellow silt. Farther north the Hwangho or Yellow River, equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties...
...Poorhouse." Despite their respective advantages in size and population, Kent County, R. I. (174 sq. mi.) and Granite City, Ill. (25,000 pop.) would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners...
Ginger (Fox). Following the success of creamy little Shirley Temple, it was inevitable that before long another child actress would pop up in Hollywood. Yet 9-year-old Jane Withers, Fox's latest bid for prepuberty adulation, is all that Hollywood might suppose a popular child actress should not be. Her round irregular face is almost entirely surrounded by a mop of straight black hair. Her snub nose screws up like a Boston bull pup's. Her plumpish figure looks far better in East Side gingham than in dainty drawing-room voile. When so directed...
...year, the orchestra men appointed a committee of their own, got Curtis Bok to be president, chipped in what they could, pledged themselves to give a full season even if they had to play to the shrubs and trees of Fairmount Park. They scheduled opera in English, Gilbert & Sullivan, "pop" and symphony concerts, ballets by Fokine, Humphrey-Weidman and Philadelphia's Montgomery and Littlefield dancers. They promised to honor unused tickets left over from last summer's fiasco...