Word: mosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vaudeville act, stayed in the small time until he met his wife. She contrived for him dizzy skits that released all his mimicry, highlighted his genius for making gibberish exciting and hilarious. A wow with them at Manhattan's smart La Martinique, he was snatched up by Moss Hart for Lady in the Dark. In Lady he stopped the show cold with Ira Gershwin's lyric for Tchaikovsky-rattling off the names of 54 Russian composers in about 40 seconds...
Lady in the Dark. Psychoanalysis in a musicomedy setting, with the effervescent Gertrude Lawrence; predicaments dreamed up by Moss Hart...
South of Shreveport, where Spanish moss droops from the live oaks and watercourses slash the marshy Louisiana land like knife-cuts in a pan of fudge, 340,000 soldiers of the Army met last week in the greatest sham battle in U.S. history. It was also the most decisive...
With the House still on vacation, Leon Henderson's price control bill still gathered dust in a drawer last week. But prices gathered neither dust nor moss...
Then came the Armistice. Moss's supercharger was forgotten by everyone except a handful of G.E. and Army and Navy air service enthusiasts. The geared supercharger became standard equipment on planes, and in 1938, aged 65, Dr. Moss sadly retired from General Electric. But World War II set flyers again to striving for altitudes incredible in 1917, brought the turbosupercharger and its inventor off the shelf. Today Moss is further improving the turbo (details are military secrets). Last week G.E. was completing a windowless, $5,000,000 supercharger plant at Everett, Mass., and announced plans for a similar...