Word: moe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then, he and the Natural Seven have inflicted on the nation Pagan Ninny's Keep 'Er Goin' Stomp (from Violinist Paganini's Perpetual Motion), Moe Zart's Turkey Trot, Cigareetes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women, and such publicity stunts as advertising for an ugly vocalist ("preferably with two heads. Neither must be attractive"). Through it all, Red has been miserable. Now things are going so well, he doubts if he'll ever get out of the band business. Says he: "It's like gumbo in the spring. You just...
Oddest attack of last month was reported from Thakin Nu's own home town of Moulmeingyun. A band of Red Flag Communists led by a fair-skinned, 25-year-old girl named Bo Moe Kyi (Officer Clear Sky) swept down at dawn and quietly took over from the police. In the presence of the town elders, Clear Sky removed 60,000 rupees from the government treasury, burned all legal records at the courthouse and emptied the jail...
Before evacuating Moulmeingyun, Bo Moe Kyi sought out Thakin Nu's aging father, U Aung Nyein. "So you are the father of that 'rosary man' [psalm-shouter]," she said. "Please don't be frightened, sir, we give Thakin Nu our due respect, but there is nothing strange in Communists seizing from the government. As you see, we have taken 300 guns and 60,000 rupees, and now we'll leave. That is all, dear great uncle...
...Warren "Moe" Berg, coach of Freshman basketball and baseball, will leave Cambridge on July 1 when his present contract expires, but his replacement has not yet been chosen. A former Varsity hurler, Berg has been on the Crimson coaching staff for three years...
Ulyssos John Lupien, Jr. '39, Harvard's answer to Moe Berg, had a chance to revisit Cambridge yesterday, but even that academic inspiration proved incapable of preventing his floundering Chicago team from being whitewashed by the Boston...