Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parts of Jehol and launched a campaign to occupy the rest. If all those "circumstances" were to be considered by the League another Lytton Report would have to be made, and by the time it was finished there would be fresh "circumstances." Angrily the Committee of Nineteen proceeded to pop a big, blunt question back at the Japanese Government, would they or would they not agree to restoration of Chinese sovereignty in Manchukuo as provided in Chapter IX of the Lytton Report...
...gives Forty-Second Street a charm which the efforts of the rest of the cast-George Brent, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell and Warner Baxter (as a nerve-ridden musicomedy director)-fail to provide. Good shot: Ruby Keeler drawling her consent when the juvenile, in a state of pop-eyed enthusiasm, asks her to marry...
...Indeed!" When sober, cold-water-shaven Adolf Hitler turned up for the third historic time at the President's Palace last week, he found Old Paul all smiles and spruce Colonel von Papen ready to pop the question: "Will you, Herr Reichspräsident, entrust Herr Hitler with a mandate to form a Cabinet...
...periophthalus (eyewinker) is a pop-eyed dweller along Eastern shores. At a distance it looks like a big tadpole. It has well-developed eyelids which wink. Powerful muscles enable it to use its pectoral fins like arms in hoisting itself a little way up wide-based tropical trees. When the periophthalus wishes to it can lift the front part of its body with these fins, gaze solemnly around, blinking like a dowager basking on her elbows at the beach...
...dealings." ¶ The President appointed Henry Frank Holthusen-, onetime Latvian and Estonian consul in the U. S., an accomplished amateur magician, to be U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. The nomination was purely honorary, because the Senate is confirming no Hoover appointments. ¶ Mayor Munroe Stiner of Larchmont, N. Y. (pop. 5,282) called to philosophize: "This is a bad year for Mayors, Mr. President...