Word: moe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lean, grey-thatched, soft-spoken Moses Annenberg, 58, has seven daughters so attractive that all have been married at one time or another. His one son Walter he is training to be a publisher. Moe Annenberg says he would not give a dollar for all the Old Masters in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Annenberg place at Great Neck, L. L, once the estate of Actor George M. Cohan, teems with in-laws and grandchildren, is "like an old-fashioned Milwaukee home." In his office. Mr. Annenberg smokes cork-tipped Pall Mall cigarets from a loose pile...
...many a hillbilly town. Appearing on the platform with a roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "And when he gets down out of his Rolls auto-moe-bile," boomed Bob Rey nolds, "Cam's footman takes this here roll of carpet like this - " Whist! Reynolds unrolled the carpet on the platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel...
...become Guggenheimers, young writers do well to know such bigwigs as Critic Henry Seidel Canby (Saturday Review of Literature), who have much unofficial say-so as to who gets what. Applicants may do even better by knowing a modest, soft-voiced scholar named Henry Allen Moe, who is Secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, has in twelve years threaded his way through a round 10,000 applications. Secretary Moe spends much time digging out prospective Fellows. A few have been so shy that he "had to drag them in by the heels." When Secretary Moe lights on a likely applicant...
...Madison, Wis., after his eleventh dancing lesson, Farmer Seymour Moe, 41, stood in a corner of the dancing school and wept because he could not dance. For the seventh time, police came, arrested Moe for creating a disturbance, released him for the twelfth and last lesson...
Equally indispensable to bookmakers and their customers are racing sheets like Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph, Cincinnati Racing Record, which have made Publisher Moe Annenberg a millionaire, and which in New York City alone receive 200,000 telephone calls daily from bettors asking racing information. Most valuable ingredient in such publications is a feature, completely unintelligible to uninitiate readers, called a "past performance chart" which for every important race run in the U. S. reveals the complete competitive history of each entrant...