Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week proved to be Violinist Erika Morini who nine years ago at the age of 15, made a debut memorable for rare technique, vigorous emotion. For three years Morini toured the U. S. successfully, then retired to her home in Vienna. Last week after six years she returned?mop of black hair, vivid green dress?and despite her acrobatic tactics impressed a Manhattan audience with her increased poise, understanding...
...nearly everything snitchable. Meanwhile what was David Lloyd George doing last week? Age cannot sap his energy nor custom stem the torrent of his words and plans. In London he went to his barber, emerged in a new and startling nakedness shingled & shorn of the traditional Lloyd Georgian mop. Spruce as ever he addressed a Liberal rally at Stowmarket-nothing special, just all in the year's work. It so happened that British unemployment came up another 120,000 this month to 2,139,000, but any number over 1,000,000 would have served as well. "There...
...Yale graduate (1919), onetime left-wing litterateur (contributor to Broom, transition, Gargoyle). He is married to Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, lives in Manhattan, but is building a house, "almost single-handed," near Brewster, N. Y. Just over six feet tall, burly, shy, he has gentle blue eyes, a mop of red hair, his clothes flap on him. He throws an ice pick at a bull's-eye painted on a barn door with persistence and accuracy. He has written one other book: The Eater of Darkness. He works on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart...
...smart enough to clutch the bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself to glide into the starfish's protuberant stomach. Oystermen have learned to clear the water of starfish by using a long mop, but other foes lurk beneath the surface. There are snailfish molluscs known as drills, borers, whelks and conches that congregate upon the oyster in such masses that they smother him. And the drum fish, sometimes several feet long, has such stout teeth that he can crush the oyster, shell...
...part of the first transcontinental road would be a fitting destiny for MOP. Started in 1851, the first railroad west of the Mississippi, it was acquired in 1879 by Jay Gould as a hub for his proposed transcontinental system. But the road became dilapidated, has only been built up since 1923 when Lewis Warrington Baldwin became its president. Now MOP operates 1,.500 miles of track, claims to be the longest system in the U. S. Long considered MOP's bankers are Kuhn. Loeb & Co. and it is believed they will remain so although J. P. Morgan...