Word: moss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture's unusually pregnant photography always suggests much more than it shows. It makes effective use of a portable phonograph, whose cracked, tinny tune, signaling another killing at each playing, steadily grows in horror. The film is also notable for a terrifying performance by Jack Moss as a tubby Nazi killer...
When Wine, Women and, Song opened on Broadway last September at a $1.65 top, critics belted it as the shoddiest kind of fourbit burlesque. Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss slapped it with a court summons charging indecency. Business immediately boomed...
Captain Bud Kast, who came up the hard way, is a speedy wingback who doesn't let moss grow under his feet. He is also a topnotch forward passer, and a very good place kicker. The fullback on this club is Tom Douglas, a Sophomore standout last fall. Starting his career as a halfback, Douglas was switched to the bucking position, and he took to his new assignment like Bernie Gallagher to the Harvard double shift...
When he took over the settlement, Baranov was left without a sailing ship. He built his own. He mixed native moss with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...
...Printing plates made of a light strong plastic, to replace ten times their weight in metallic stereotypes and electrotypes, are announced by Theodore Moss, Inc. The master plate is still made of metal but any number of duplicate plates can be made by molding under pressure. The inked impression is sharp and accurate even for fine half-tones, but for direct printing the plastic plates do not have the endurance of metal plates...