Word: mops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England ancestry, as unintoxicating as ice water, but something new. Today, though it does not compete with the box office of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Martha Graham's glamorless dance counts a big audience from coast to coast, a huge following of high-minded, earnest, mop-haired disciples who treat their art as if it were the successor of the Greek or Elizabethan drama...
...saucer-eyed Diego Rivera brought down Rockefeller wrath on his mop-haired pate by giving a place of honor in his Rockefeller Center mural to Lenin. Last week a similar rumpus flurried up when the figure of Joseph Stalin was discovered in a WPA mural at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. Keeping Stalin company were two little-known Leftist aviators lined up alongside Byrd, Lindbergh, Earhart; a U. S. Navy hangar whose white star insignia had become the red star of the Soviets...
...sophistication outwardly evident in a billowing grey mop and man-about-town monocle, Francophile Janet Planner still has a certain girlish naïveté. Her friends remember that when Vanity Fair asked her for a series on French murders she objected that Americans wouldn't be interested because French murders were so different from American murders...
...what wistful British investors remember as "the dear-money war" of 1914-18 you could rent your patriotic funds to King & country for as much as 5%. A daring pilot in the Royal Air Force in those days was Major Sir John Allsebrook Simon, who then sported a thick mop of hair. Last week, now bald as an egg, Sir John Simon rose in the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer again to do his bit for King & country, this time by trying to make World War II definitely "a cheap-money war" so far as Great Britain...
Best to fare in reorganization are the holders of $13,715,000 in equipment trust certificates whose loans went to keep MOP in first-class operating condition. They will be paid dollar for dollar. RFC, which lent MOP $23,134,800 to keep above water, and now has an additional $8,630,000 interest claim, gets $25,994,000 in bonds, the balance in cash and preferred stock. Holders of senior bonds get niggling amounts of cash, trade in the balance of their bonds for new MOP's prime security, ten-year collateral trust notes. Some junior bonds...