Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the eccentric Minister of Education was out inspecting elementary schools, flew into a tantrum on discovering that many Japanese moppets now refer to their parents as papa and mama, even as pop and mom. Aghast at this latest result of U. S. cinema invasion of the Orient,* the Lloyd George of the East rushed back to Tokyo, decreed from his Ministry of Education that on school premises Japanese children must hereafter "refer to their parents with proper respect" as O-to-san (Honorable Father) and O-ka-san (Honorable Mother...
...Nordic mythology he has erected a pagan worship which substitutes Odin for Moses, Siegfried for Saul, and 2,000,000 World War heroes for Christianity's company of saints. His pale eyes glowing, Dr. Rosenberg shouts: "The new mythology cannot be downed!" And throughout Germany strange little pagan cults pop up like autumn crocuses. Latest of them is the Nordic Religious Community, founded last week, which is pantheistic and rejects the doctrine of atonement. The pagan cultists are genuinely, if boisterously and truculently pious, and in their ranks are not a few Herr Doktors brandishing dissertations and theses...
Last week the citizens of Helena, Mont, (pop.: 11,803) learned that their infantile paralysis epidemic was serious but not alarming. Labor trouble was delaying work on the new high school. The commissioners for Lewis & Clark County decreed an increase of .85 mills in the local tax rate. A posse was hunting one Henry John Miller, following the murder of a teacher at the State Industrial School in Miles City. The proposed dog races at the State Fair were off. George Miner, agent at the Northern Pacific station, was selling travelers' insurance on false teeth and Paris Cleaners were doing...
...White House should burn to the ground this week, citizens of Helena will read about it in their own two newspapers. If such an event had happened during the past three months, the highly literate citizens of Montana's capital (pop. 11,803) would have had to get their news elsewhere...
Presented is the city of Gibbsville, Pa. (pop.: 24,032), battening on the anthracite coal industry at a time when the Depression was called the Slump. In a story of only three days, John O'Hara succeeds in covering as much ground about Gibbsville as Sinclair Lewis did in describing Gopher Prairie (Main Street) in three years. He writes with swift realism, wisely avoids sentimentality...