Word: momus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago yesterday . . ." drawls wistful, semi-costumed MARY PENNEBAKER, Radcliffe '51, Hot off the New Orleans delta, she's missing her first Mardi Gras over and reminiscing by trying to show three untravelled Yankees how to tell a Course from a Momus...
...half a century, New Orleans' fantastic Mardi Gras balls were strictly for the upper crust. Nobody without money, blue blood, or both gained membership in the secret men's clubs or "krewes"* which staged them. Before 1900 there were only five clubs: Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night, Rex and Proteus. They culled guest lists with pernickety care, asked only the fairest of debutantes to serve as carnival queens. But times changed. The socially ambitious began forming their own krewes...
...many a New Orleans citizen there will be little rest even after all this uproar quiets down. It takes a year to plan a Mardi Gras, and 1949 would be along before you could say Comus Momus...
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...