Word: moss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George W. Blanchard, Dugald C. Burns, Edward M. Guild (Captain), Francis A. Houston 2nd, William J. Moss, Charles M. Purinton, James F. Reidy, William R. Watson, Charles B. Straus, Jr. (Manager...
Last week at the Diamond Horseshoe, Mae Murray again began dancing the Merry Widow waltz, with Georges Fontana of the sleek '20s dancing team of Moss & Fontana. The featherweight toast of the 1908 Follies has long since moved into the middleweight division, but as she swooped, swirled and was flung through the air the house came down, and Billy Rose knew that he had a waltzing hit and the nostalgic smash of his career...
...lies at Ipiutak on Point Hope, a bleak sandspit in the Arctic Ocean, where no trees and little grass survive endless gales at 30° below zero. But where houses lay more than 2,000 years ago, underlying refuse makes grass and moss grow greener. The scientists could easily discern traces of long avenues and hundreds of dwelling sites. A mile long, a quarter-mile wide, this ruined city was perhaps as big as any in Alaska today (biggest: Juneau...
...Orleans' first stake race was run 104 years ago. A horse named Angora won it, running on a makeshift track near the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, around a grove of moss-hung live oaks. For 36 years the track was a playground for Creole gallants and their blooded plantation ponies, for the stock fairs and horse races of New Orleans' Mechanics' Society. Eventually the informal track became the Fair Grounds...
...Freshman contest was prevented from being a blank only by Captain Ted Guild, who won a 14 to 12 decision in an overtime in the 128-pound class. Jim Reidy, Bill Watson, Charlie Purinton, and Dug Burns were able to hold their opponents down to decisions, while Bill Moss, Frank Houston, and George Blanchard were all pinned...