Word: moe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Bergers and their friends would not be so wretched if it were not for the crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine for the sweetheart and sport shoes he cannot possess on his $16-a-week salary...
Promising on his word of honor as a gentleman to present Evreux with a photostat of the check, Moe Buchsbaum triumphantly left the court. In Washington next day Treasury officials said that four private contributions toward extinction of War Debts have been received. In each case the foreign government concerned is queried and only after receiving its O. K. does the Treasury wipe off the debt in question the amount of the gift. Biggest contribution thus far was from a Jugoslav who left his entire estate, all of it tied up in property, to vindicate Jugoslavia which has welched...
Ordered to pay a fine of 100 francs ($6.60), Motorist Moe gestured his disgust, called the French a race of welchers and flatly refused to pay $6.60 to any French court until President Roosevelt receives the total War Debt payment now due from Paris...
Like many another Frenchman, the Evreux judge deplores his Government's welching, winces at the scorn of itinerant Moe Buchsbaums. Instead of ordering the prisoner jailed he snapped, "I will accept, Monsieur Buchsbaum, a photostatic copy of a check proving that you have paid the sum of 100 francs to the American Treasury for the account of France...
Behind that terse statement by the New York Yacht Club's selection committee last week lay 25 summer days of trial races by the three contenders off Newport, R. I. Last fortnight the weakest candidate, Frederick H. Prince's Weeta-moe, was eliminated. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow settled down to the serious work of defeating Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and sailed by that fine old salt, onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...