Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annapolis, Md., Judge Robert Moss of the circuit court suspended sentence on one Elizabeth Mumford, 51, convicted of pilfering $20,956 in ten years from the county school board by raising checks, because, he said, he came of stock which believed no woman should be punished "unless she had reached such a state of depravity that she was no longer a fit person to be at freedom...
...pounds, height two feet four inches, precocious daughter of Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan, crawled and once even toddled about her royal nursery last week, examining her first birthday presents. Each of the hundreds of presents was a fish. Each fish was alive, wrapped carefully in damp perfumed moss and encased in a handsome and expensive birthday basket...
...Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
...acts are laid in the court room of the caliph and in the town square, respectively, and the scenery has been designed by John Moss; Moss is also designing the costuming. Constructivism, allowing for different stage levels, will be used for the first time in a Triangle production...
...cinematography is good. There are real alligators and fake Spanish moss. The plot calls up tears of Little Annie Rooney...