Word: moss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once when he was a guest at the Palm Springs ranch of Movie Mogul Joseph M. Schenck, the desert air was riven around 3 a.m. by a blood-chilling series of screams and cries. Headed by the burly Schenck, who clutched a revolver, the bathrobed guests (among them Dramatist Moss Hart) hurried to the scene...
When he and Moss Hart were collaborating on their brilliant revue, As Thousands Cheer, Berlin played a new number for him. It sounded terrible. Hart asked him to play it again. It sounded even more terrible. Hart thought a moment, then asked him to play Always. One of Berlin's most successful ballads, Always, played by the maestro, was virtually unrecognizable. "I thought so," Hart said. The new number later turned out to be Heat Wave, one of the hits of the year...
...value, the Canadian dollar hit par with the U.S. dollar. Across the world, in the free markets of Paris, Milan, Tangier and Beirut, Canadian dollars were suddenly in such brisk demand that money-changers priced them at 101 U.S. cents. In the confused hippodrome of international finance, the wide, moss-green Bank of Canada banknote was running neck & neck with the U.S. dollar as the world's most desirable currency...
...whole operation, diffident "Billy" Cowles leaves the Review news department to 38-year-old Managing Editor James Bracken. Though the paper still covers its region like a tent, it no longer has its former editorial prowess. Bracken has been trying to restore it by scraping some of the moss off the Review's Republicanism to bring it more in line with the increasing industrialization of the area. His progress has not been empire-shaking. Many a Spokane citizen still pines for a chance to read news that isn't Cowles's news...
...disgusted by the world, but not willing to forgo it for simple, pure art. He builds the fantasy around a legend, implied, and a ghost, who appears. The first line began the general confusion. "Once there was 'a Chinese emporer, who never died because he never lived," said Allyn Moss, the one-woman chorus. This prepared the audience for a highly symbolic piece with the result that it tried to read a deep meaning into every line and missed the mood, only weakly created by the actors. Lyon Phelps played the artist as unconvincingly as possible and also directed...