Word: moppetous
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...time Admiral Byrd had spent a night at the White House and week-ended with his mother in Virginia over Mother's Day, many a moppet knew that he had brought back from Antarctica these things...
...what effect all this kindness, all this money had had. The time seemed most propitious. The British-controlled Dalai Lama had died in December 1933, and according to immemorial tradition his spirit was announced to have found residence in the body of a small button-eyed Tibetan moppet, chosen by wheel-spinning Buddhist priests. Until he reaches his majority the new Dalai Lama will be shut up in a monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew for certain who was pulling the strings that ran the Regency, but China's chances might be better...
...above pointing out that housekeeping in the Swedish Royal household has long been sloppy. Old enough to be in his second childhood (though such is far from the case), Gustaf V does have the eccentricity of leaving valuable royal orders lying about his palaces with the abandon of a moppet tired of its toys. Awaiting royal audience, a distinguished visitor was lately amazed to observe half a dozen valuable orders of various nations strewn haphazard about the antechamber. Mused His Majesty, as the audience began in a room hung with scores of silver platters, crammed with hundreds of silver bowls...
...Henry was being readied for the cinema. Henry dolls were on sale. Nine publishers were clamoring for rights to reprint Henry in 10? booklets. And last week brought a crowning glory when the first Henry book appeared.*Composed of 60 examples from the Satevepost the Henry book shows the moppet at his best...
Walter Brooks was a 3-year-old moppet, romping on a Virginia plantation, when a tall, lean Presbyterian clergyman named John Miller Dickey founded the first institution for the higher education of Negroes in the U. S., called it Ashmun Institute. Soon after it opened in Oxford in 1854, a mob of townspeople appeared at Dr. Dickey's home, threatened to shoo his students across the Maryland border into slavery. Dr. Dickey's stern face and commanding figure cowed the mob, carried the college through its first crisis. At the close of the Civil War the name was changed...