Word: moss-hung
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Suddenly last fall one studio took the offensive. Dust-collecting for nearly a year on the shelves at Warner Brothers had been Owen Davis' play Jezebel, a drama of moss-hung New Orleans, spiced with the vixenry of a high-spirited, imperious Southern belle...
...Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past the Wesley Oaks to the Christ Church rectory. He fingered a .38, peered through a downstairs...
...titillated shady, moss-hung Savannah with an expansion program that will increase Union Bag's assets more than one-half is President Alexander Calder, known to his subordinates as "Sandy," though greying hair reveals his 50 years. As a Union Bag salesman, not long out of St. Lawrence University, he bagged the Woolworth 5?-&-10? stores account, which was a springboard to a vice-presidency. Boardchairman and one of Union Bag's big stockholders is old Philanthropist August Heckscher...
Fire swooped upon "Hobcaw Barony," island mansion of Bernard Mannes Baruch at moss-hung Georgetown, S. C., and totally destroyed it. Mr. Baruch and household, uninjured, withdrew to Kingstree, S. C., 30 miles inland...
...work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...