Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charming, and a good-looking, 18-year-old daughter, Louise. He has false teeth but able Dentist B. K. ("Kirk") Westfall of Indianapolis sees to it that they do not impede his public speaking, which is of the best. He can pour it out so dynamically that his eyeballs pop. His radio voice is not pale, even beside Franklin Roosevelt's. Consciousness of his mastery over men gives him a dignity which might be ludicrous had he not also a dazzling smile and the ability to throw his head back, laugh uproariously, especially at embarrassing questions. When asked last...
Last week the Tribune, pawing an A. P. regional report for dirt on the New Deal, let out a roar. Its 857,963 readers were informed that, although one Edward M. Dieter had been listed as postmaster for Woodstock, Ill. (pop. 5,471), no one in Woodstock or Washington had ever heard of Mr. Dieter. After assuring itself in Washington that the Woodstock appointment had gone as scheduled to William W. Desmond, the Tribune exulted: WOODSTOCK GETS POSTMASTER, BUT WHO'S DIETER...
That evening the Times read the A. P. report a little more carefully than its rival, informed its 359,844 readers that Mr. Dieter had been nominated for Naperville, Ill. (pop. 5,118), "perhaps 30 ... miles from here." The Times had even called him up. "Dieter answered the telephone," reported the Times, "and revealed without hesitation that he is Edward M. Dieter, 70, pharmacist and postmaster of Naperville. . . . That's all there was to it, Tribune. Anybody could have done...
...another thing, The Streets of Paris gets good and wacky, as anything must in which those Hellzapoppinjays, Olsen & Johnson, have a hand. Screwiest bit: Bobby Clark waltzing with a stately blonde in an Apache dive, supremely oblivious of the guns that pop, the knives that whiz, the bodies that hurtle all around them...
Parent of the Wheeling Steelmakers idea was John L. ("Pop") Grimes, general advertising manager of the corporation, who started a quartette over Wheeling's WWVA...