Word: moss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arts is oversized and overstuffed. At times the whole thing seems less like the seven lively arts (which presumably include dressmaking and sex) than like seven luxury hotels. The big names frantically jostle one another as though they were playing "Going to Jerusalem"-with Dialogue Writers Ben Hecht and Moss Hart and Song Writer Cole Porter the first to be done out of chairs...
...office, and a dressing gown his usual business suit. "Billy," commented a friend, "probably spends more time in his bedroom than any other well person." The house is also the scene of dinner parties which are "cast as carefully" as his shows and which star Baruch, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Cole Porter...
...departure of Big Ed was by no means catastrophic, but its echo would penetrate to the moss-covered oaks and tropical palms of Sea Island. Tom Dewey, staying on at Sea Island for another ten days, could be blind and dumb to politics, but he could no longer be deaf...
Amber was pregnant. So she married Luke Channell, who "grinned incessantly," showing "a kind of slippery green moss growing along the edges of his gums...
Belly wounds have priority on the operating tables. Nurses call the belly-wound ward "Wangenstein Alley," after the inventor of a stomach suction device. In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients' noses and wounds...