Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German trade treaty of 1925. Specifically, in the case of an obscure German who has been trying for months to wangle a renewal of his masseur's license out of Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss. pugnacious Fiorello LaGuardia snarled: "Wherever anyone is depending on this Treaty to get a license he won't get it! ... The issue is: should we extend privileges to German citizens here when similar privileges are denied to American citizens in Germany? . . . This is a great big thing. This is a broad interpretation of treaty rights . . . worth fighting...
...titillated shady, moss-hung Savannah with an expansion program that will increase Union Bag's assets more than one-half is President Alexander Calder, known to his subordinates as "Sandy," though greying hair reveals his 50 years. As a Union Bag salesman, not long out of St. Lawrence University, he bagged the Woolworth 5?-&-10? stores account, which was a springboard to a vice-presidency. Boardchairman and one of Union Bag's big stockholders is old Philanthropist August Heckscher...
...suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica is all one continent, as large as the U. S., Mexico and part of Canada combined...
...tepid fords, envoys waiting for the tide by mudflats spangled with shoals of stranded fish, blued by a mist of butterflies above, and old kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone, mantled in green moss, frogs sprawling on their shoulders, their fallen heads beside them, pitted and time-scarred." Claude has a theory that somewhere along the ancient Royal Way-now the jungle-covered boundary between Siam and the "unpacified area"-are undiscovered temples with valuable carvings, perhaps treasure...
...that is not all. The pines of Summerville, crape jasmine and myrtle, wisteria and roses, boxwood, live oaks and Spanish moss, palmetto, banana, poinsettias and oleander-only parts of Florida, not California, can compare. Even the low black swamps have a rare appeal. Cypress with spreading trunks and entangling roots...