Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lights turn down and a waiter begins to mop the floor. The Vagabond gets up, puts on his hat and coat, and goes out. A cold rain is falling on Mt. Auburn Street...
Unperturbed by all this furor, a swart, mop-haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
...People Who Think, we mop our brows, staggered...
Noah (by Andre Obey; Jerome Mayer, producer). Playwright Obey begins this naive fable with the First Navigator banging the last few nails into the Ark with his stone hammer. His dowdy beard hangs in ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith...
...constitutional requirement a North Dakotan must have lived five consecutive years in the State to be eligible for the Governorship. Husky, mop-haired "Tom" Moodie is an oldtime itinerant newshawk whose restless feet have carried him through newspaper shops from Cleveland to San Francisco to New Orleans. For ten years he has lived chiefly in North Dakota, the last four as editor of his own paper at Williston. But in 1930 the urge to move took him to Minneapolis for a time. When North Dakota Republicans discovered that he had voted that year in Minnesota, they secured an injunction which...