Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be Cousin Richard, 36, vice president. A Phi Beta Kappa at Yale he advertised TUTORING CLASSES DE LUXE, guaranteeing that any student who attended his five-hour lectures would pass a given course. His students paid $20 a head, lay on divans in his rooms, consumed champagne, soda pop, candies, ice cream, cigars. Richard Gimbel carried his money-making zeal into the bargain basement of the Philadelphia store. Shrewd, lusty, Richard became store manager at 30, often boasts of the fact that he pulled the store out of a $1,700,000 deficit in three years...
...Symphony subsidy is J. Emmet Hayden, longtime (25 years) member of the Board of City Supervisors, chairman of the Music Committee of the City Art Commission. An amateur violinist, he organized a municipal band 20 years ago, a municipal chorus in 1924, was responsible for a series of municipal "pop'' concerts given every season since 1922 by the Symphony. Supervisor Hayden also finds time to run bang-up restaurants on ferries plying San Francisco...
...endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case of Graves's Disease. But in all cases the eyes bulge. In extreme cases the eyes may pop out of their sockets...
...City's Bronx Zoo, a rare Himalayan bear ate a peach. The pit stuck in his small intestine, killed him. A hippopotamus gulped a tube of toothpaste, grew violently ill. In the stomach of a cassowary dead of indigestion were found a golf ball, a metal doll, twelve pop bottle tops, a vanity case...
...grumble at the loads they were lugging. Postal receipts at the Denver Post Office for April climbed dizzily and more than 100 extra hands were called in for full-time service to help handle the swelling volume of first-class mail. An amazing number of dimes began to pop out of the stamp-canceling machines. Finally it was discovered that a "Send-a-Dime" chain letter was sweeping the city. Completely swamped, Postmaster James Orren Stevic called in postal inspectors to investigate the possibilities of stopping the scheme as fraudulent. "The thing is staggering in its proportions," sighed weary Postmaster...