Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight the Banjo Club will play "Officer of the Day," by Hall, and a Football Medley, arranged by Rice; while the Vocal Club will render "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Song of the Volga Boatmen," "John Peel," and "Fair Harvard. "Espana," by Waldteufel, and "Pizicatti," by Delibes will be played by the Mandolin Club...
Included in the musical program of the combined Banjo, Vocal, and Mandolin Clubs are songs such as "Pop Goes the Weasel," "John Peel," and "Fair Harvard," offerings by the Gold Coast Orchestra and the banjo pair, E. Rotan Sargent '36 and Franklin P. Whitbeck...
...Athens, Ga. (pop. 18,192) there are two cinema houses, both under the same management. The Strand charges 25? admission. The Palace, more popular, scales its price from 25? to 40?, depending on the day of the week. To University of Georgia's 2,700 students that jack-up in the Palace price on busy nights is a major grievance. Around dinner tables one evening last fortnight passed word to meet at the theatre. After dinner groups of students, more boisterous than usual, began to gather outside the Palace and across the street at Costa's ice cream...
...Carbon, Ind. (pop. 476), the postmaster protested that railway mail clerks have not been throwing the Carbon mail off the train. The mail clerks explained that when the wind is from the northwest it blows the locomotive smoke in the mail coach door and they cannot see Carbon...
Nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge, Mass. (pop. 14.000) had nothing to look forward to but the dole last month when 104-year-old Hamilton Woolen Co., unable to settle a strike, voted to shut up shop (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week Southbridge was jubilant once more. The cloth designers had been called back to prepare their patterns for autumn. That could mean only one thing: the mill was not to close. That day Hamilton Woolen's President Richard Lennihan announced that arrangements had been made to sell the company to U. S. Bunting Co. of Lowell...