Word: mosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a big worm operator. Earthworms are hermaphrodites; all healthy adults lay eggs by the score, and Oliver gathers them by the million, from layers of damp burlap in his culture beds. Packed in damp peat moss, they can be shipped any distance. Thirty days after being unpacked and put in the soil, the eggs hatch; 90 days later they become adults laying eggs of their own. Earthworms make a wonderfully nourishing and relatively cheap food for poultry, hatchery fish, market frogs, terrapin. Everybody knows that chickens like worms. Dr. Oliver has devised what he calls an "intensive range" poultry...
...STANLEY Moss Cleveland Heights, Ohio...
Fourth-of-July firecrackers began exploding. Major Charles A. DuBois, U.S.A. retired, New York secretary of the Sons of the American Revolution, shrilled that only soldiers and sailors in uniform were permitted to use the military salute. Colonel James A. Moss, U.S.A. retired, president of the United States Flag Association, declared that under the flag code, as modified by the Second National Flag Conference in 1924, the old straight-arm salute was mandatory for school children. Meanwhile New York Post cartoonist Stan MacGovern pointed out other uses of the gesture...
...Thee (lyrics by Alfred Hayes, music by Alex North, Al Moss, others; produced by Nat Lichtman) is a straining little revue in which there is so much stale beer, amateurishly brewed, that when a fair grade of theatrical champagne arrives it seems like Veuve Cliquot. Really sparkling is the ballroom dancing of Cappello & Beatrice...
George Washington Slept Here (by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, produced by Sam H. Harris). One of the high comic themes of American life concerns the nervous city people who want to get back to the soil-but not so far back as to avoid rural electrification. To this thesis Kaufman & Hart now devote their practiced wits. Ernest Truex plays the part of a little man who buys a Pennsylvania farm where Washington supposedly bedded (actually it turns out to have been Benedict Arnold). The acid Jean Dixon is his wife, forced among other pastoral ordeals to watch a well...