Word: momo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most exacting job in the Rio carnaval belongs to a reporter on the paper A Noite who looks like a Latin edition of Oliver Hardy. For four days each year Senhor San Francisco Cardozo Menezes is carnaval's gaudy, giddy King Momo. In those four days he is on the go from mid-morning to 5 a.m., out in the streets and at balls, drinking champagne by the Jeroboam, singing sambas and shedding some 20 of his 210 pounds...
...North America last week were: Poet Robert William Service, short, red-faced, British-born author of many a hairy-chested ballad (The Cremation of Sam McGee, Shooting of Dan McGrew), resident of France for the past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose, 11, son of the Earl...
Last week in Baltimore Brazilian Pianist Guiomar Novaěs and Conductor Hans Kindler's National Symphony gave one of Villa-Lobos' biggest works its first U. S. hearing. Called Momo Precoce (The Young Momus) after the ancient Greek god of ridicule, the composition depicted the sights & sounds of Brazil's annual, three-day-long "Children's Carnival." After listening to its naïve, childlike jingle themes, half-focused in a turbulent hubbub of flashy orchestration, Baltimoreans rated it one of the most bumptiously original pieces they had heard in a long time...