Word: mops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sadakichi Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
From an artillery outpost on Leyte, Brigadier General Kenneth F. Cramer, deputy commander of the embattled 24th Division, watched the fight. Nearby officers noted that a Jap sniper fired every time the 50-year-old National Guardsman took off his helmet to mop his brow. Warned General Cramer promised to keep his hat on his glistening bald pate hidden...
Said "Shorty" Joy, whose age is 20 and whose height is 5 ft. 4: "I walked up to him toughlike, and I said, 'Mop oop!' I don't know German and I figured that might sound like 'Get up!' . . . The Jerry put down his gun and gave up. Then I looked across a field and there were six Jerries looking at us from a trench. ... I walked over shouting 'Oop mop!' and by golly, out they came...
Later Joy and Cervo spotted more Germans in a hedge. "I shouted 'Oop mop' and out came Jerries. . . . When we finished clearing up the hedge, we saw more and bigger foxholes, some of them with mortars. We made the Jerries bring out their weapons and pile them, until we had 49 Jerries. . . . [The prisoners] glared at us and I glared back and shouted 'Mop oop!' and we brought back our souvenirs...
Cooperation Wanted. Betsey Barton can now take care of herself entirely. She can even cook from a wheel chair (keeping pots & pans in bottom drawers instead of top ones) and mop ("not too clean, of course...