Word: mops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mop-Up. In Salt Lake City, two weeks after somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's clean washing off her wash line, somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's washing machine...
...reduce the excess-profits tax exemption and increase Federal taxes sixfold. Chairman Pyeatt figured that before first and refunding bondholders could get the 5% due them on their present securities, profits under the proposed plan would have to hit $87,000,000, which is $52,000,000 more than MOP ever earned...
...Face It! (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is the first musical of the season to stir the critics to half-hysterical admiration. The show, a good routine musical, didn't fully rate it, but its headliner, mop-haired, magic-tongued Danny Kaye, did. Last season, in Lady in the Dark, he was almost brand-new to Broadway, but he would have stolen the show from any one less than Gertrude Lawrence. In Let's Face It! (for which he up & quit Lady) he rides off with the show...
...officer of General Li Tsung-jen, Chen needled the Japanese so spectacularly that they made a special expedition to mop...
...blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers made their hasty way across the Dnieper. In their mop-up the Germans claimed 300,000 prisoners, actually took about half that many. Marshal Semion Budenny had had about 700,000 men to begin with, had suffered about 150,000 casualties-and so he extricated perhaps as many as 400,000. These were, however, disorganized by their losses...