Word: moppet
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...determine which children are deserving of presents. One of the pair is St. Nicholas, a white-bearded figure full of saintly good will. As portrayed by many a thinly disguised parent or kindly uncle, St. Nicholas is always ready to believe the best of any Austrian moppet who claims to have been good enough to rate a present...
Onetime Movie Moppet Margaret O'Brien, out of pigtails and into evening dress at 16, came demurely up the celebrity line at the CinemaScopic première of The Robe (see CINEMA) with a man at her arm: Toastmaster George Jessel, 55. Flashbulbs popped as Jessel hastened to explain that there was nothing between them: "My date tonight is with Margaret's mother...
...Harrow), both came to rule through family tragedy. Hussein's father, Talal (who himself succeeded the assassinated Abdullah, first King of Jordan), lost his throne because of insanity; Feisal's father Ghazi wrapped his racing car around a light pole when Feisal was a solemn-eyed moppet of three...
...front of Manhattan's Vanderbilt Theater one matinee day last week, a moppet sadly said to mother: "Gee, I wish I could see Mrs. Hecht's little girl in this." But Mrs. Hecht's little girl had just been forced out of the cast of the play Midsummer by Actors' Equity, and Broadway rang with the loudest theatrical Donnybrook in many a season. Actress Jenny Hecht seemed small (9 years, 45 Ibs.) to create such a furor. But then, as her father, Playwright (Front Page) Ben Hecht, had himself once remarked: (There never was an uninhibited...
...moppet in Carl Rose's famed New Yorker cartoon who said "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it," got some support last week from an unexpected quarter-the deadly serious letters column of the deadly serious British Medical Journal. The B.MJ. had recently pontificated that "spinach would seem to be particularly valuable for the nutrition of children, provided they can be persuaded to acquire a liking for its somewhat bitter taste." Not so, snapped back a London husband & wife team, Physician Joan E. Bamji and Chemist Nariman S. Bamji:' the stuff...