Word: moppet
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...looking for such nouns TIME has introduced some words into everyday speech. The best known is "tycoon" but there have been several others such as "pundit," "kudos," "moppet." We adopted "tycoon" in TIME'S early years after discarding "mogul" and "titan'' as too shopworn, and "hospodar" and "beglerbeg" as too obscure. We needed "tycoon" because otherwise our writers had to beat all around the vocabulary to describe a man of great wealth whose power and influence rivaled those of government heads. In "tycoon" (from the Chinese ta, "great," and kiun, "prince") the Japanese had a word...
...mornings) they had been one of the biggest minor nuisances Britons had had to struggle with. Now the curtains were being converted into black clothes and funeral coverings. Said a housewife: "With the curtains gone, I feel I've got no clothes on." Said a five-year-old moppet, watching her mother take down the curtains: "It's lovely to let out the light, but how shall we keep out the dark...
Baby Snooks had grown old. So had Fanny Brice, who mothered the brash radio moppet a generation ago and has made a consistently good living out of her (radio salary: $5,000 a week). Said Fanny, now 52: "When you get old, you have to worry. You might get ooglie-booglie." With this thought in mind, Fanny last week trotted out a new character on her new Post Toasties show (CBS, Sun., 6:30 p.m., E.W.T...
...walls of the Baltimore Museum's Junior Gallery were covered by an iconography of the familiar world, seen by the children in very unfamiliar focus. Most of the pictures kept well within the bounds of childhood experience (animals, vehicles, houses, rooms) But some were well outside. One surrealist moppet had painted a huge cactus tree containing a human face, and surrounded by sunflowers surmounted by chickens and peacocks. There were three pictures of lovers on park benches. Art experts and child psychologists who were queried said that children paint such scenes because of unsatisfied curiosity: they do not understand...
...Comets, an Aurora (Ill.) basketball team of 10-to 13-year-old boys, last week made basketballers' eyes pop. In a Y.M.C.A. tournament, they averaged a field goal every 27 seconds to smother another moppet five, the Fritzies, 106-to-1. Before experts could hail them as a wonder team of prodigies, the Comets next day plummeted to earth. Against another Y team of coevals, they lost...