Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Department. As such, it had hitherto been under the general supervision of another of the several Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury-Mr. McKenzie Moss. But, until a year ago, it was assumed that the main responsibility lay with Mr. Haynes. Wide publicity was given to his "success." Then, suddenly, the publicity stopped, presumably because it could not be sustained against the evidences of liquor on every hand. Interest shifted from Mr. Haynes to the Treasury Department proper. Mr. Moss, who had other things to do besides enforcing prohibition, became swamped with work. Now he has been relieved by the transfer...
...Story. After the mysteries of a certain wedding, consummated over a moss-bed in the headwaters of a French river, an imperceptible gobbet of gelatine floated down the river into the sea. The gobbet sank, down, down into pelagic depths, attached itself to a rose-colored seaweed and swooned away...
...Ross Wilkins Jr., Chairman, Miss Evelyn Moss; R. S. Wright, Miss Atty Jarman: W. S. Dunckler, Miss Helen Sage; D. T. Allen, Miss Frances Thayer; H. Finney Jr., Miss Deddy Piper; J. F. Ryan Jr., Miss Nancy Miller...
...indigenous architecture in the world and that Gothic is the least suitable style of building for modern domestic purposes, there is now a marked tendency to erect elaborate imitations of England's more famous colleges in American Universities. The assumption appears to be that culture is a kind of moss which grows spontaneously where a suitably medieval building offers the appropriate soil. London Nation...
...vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another lichen to the American moss-back, he on this side of the Atlantic will soon be unbearable...