Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...henhouse in the quiet Ozark village of Couch, Mo. (pop. 59) last week, Mrs. Henry Bennett found an egg imprinted with the phrase: "Here my word 35." Viewing this as a religious portent, Mrs. Bennett told her neighbors about it. A wave of excited piety overtook Couch. To Mrs. Bennett's home went visitor after visitor, to emit fervent prayers. When, in a fit of devout jitters, a female preacher dropped the egg and broke it, Mrs. Bennett succeeded in gluing enough pieces on another egg so that the words were still visible. Said Mrs. Bennett...
President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange was re-elected vice president and director of the State Bank of Apopka, Fla. (pop...
...that the Attorney General shall not be interrupted in his argument by questions from the bench. Therefore the real excitement did not begin until Mr. Cummings had finished his stump speech. Then the Justices who had asked only a few questions of the Government's opponents began to pop questions right & left at Messrs. Maclean and Reed. Some court room observers got an impression that the Justices' questions were hostile to the Government's case. Others felt that the Court, friendly to the Government's position, was trying to bring out the best possible arguments from...
Romance is the chief advertised product of Tahiti. According to French tourist agencies, Tahiti, "Pearl of the Pacific," has everything Hawaii has, and its biggest village Papeete (pop.: 7,000) is "The Paris of the South Seas." Local realtors rent tourists seaside cottages outside Papeete, complete with female cook. Any native girl found on Papeete's streets after 9 o'clock at night is given a prostitute's card and a weekly physical examination. The Tahitians themselves have no words in their language for either prostitution or love...
Four summers ago Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian and champion hog-caller of Pine Bluff, Ark. chanted that remedy for rural Depression up & down the land. Last week at Prattsville (pop.: 114) he summoned a meeting of farmers and their wives to announce a far-flung scheme for bringing electricity into 15,000 isolated Arkansas farm homes. He proposed that his company, Arkansas Power & Light, invest about $600 per home in transmission lines and equipment, while each farmer was to put $200 into lamps, irons, washing machines, water pumps. How were the farmers to raise the money? Why, said...