Word: moppetous
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Moreover, she was worried because her sister-in-law was trying to steal her son. The moppet was rescued by a mysterious young man who became devoted to him. This rescuer, too, turned out to be the Argentine millionaire. At this, the lovers penetrated the veils of mystery that had enveloped them. "In one stride he reached her. His fingers shook as he tipped up her face to the moonlight. He uttered a short sharp cry. His arms swept her close...
...loyal M. P.'s flayed the Manchester school inspector, London's sensation-sheets made a heroine of Moppet Maud, who was rushed to the House of Commons and popped into the visitors' gallery to hear aristocratic Major Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Education, report on her case...
...Said Moppet Maud: "I feel funny sitting here...
THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON- Thomas Ripley - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In all the highly publicized activities of Western badmen, the multiple killings of John Wesley Hardin have been more or less neglected. A tough, blue-eyed, wavy-haired east Texas moppet who grew up when his State was occupied by Yankee troops and hated carpetbaggers, Hardin killed his first man, an ex-slave, when he was 15. In the next nine years he killed approximately 43 more. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, Hardin served 16 before he was pardoned, wrote an autobiography, studied law, practiced in El Paso...
...Bulgaria, a Turkish province, was struggling for its independence; on the Turkish island of Crete, Greeks had just ended an unsuccessful three-year revolt and a curly-haired moppet named Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos was just 8 years old. Dr. House learned Bulgarian, and was instrumental in arranging exchanges of Bulgarian and Turkish prisoners...