Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Quitman, Miss., Sanders Moss forbade Floyd Watson to court his daughter. Angered, Suitor-Reject Watson shot & killed Mother Moss, Father Moss, Daughter Moss, Nephew Moss, then wounded a fifth Moss and two companions...
...speaker, begged the audience to pity New England if she secedes, since she cannot be self-sufficient. He closed his speech by painting a picture of rats emerging from Boston Harbor, surmounting the City Hall, and finally "perishing from starvation after they had consumed the rotting corpses in the moss-covered streets...
Merrily We Roll Along (by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; Sam Harris, producer). "What are you having?" a young man at Richard Niles's party asks Julia Glenn (Mary Philips) in the first scene of this play. Too bored to hand him her glass, she says: "I'm having not much fun." The acts that follow explain why not only Julia Glenn but Richard Niles (Kenneth MacKenna),the successful playwright who is her host; Althea Royce (Jessie Royce Landis), the aging actress who is his wife, and most of the other members of the large cast fail...
...Great Waltz (by Moss Hart; Max Gordon, producer) is a musical biography of Johann Strauss -("The Blue Danube'') and his able father. The plot is laid in the Habsburgs' Vienna of 1844, the year the young Strauss, stepping out of the shadow of his father's contemporary fame, made his name overnight leading the orchestra 'in his own waltzes at Dommaver's Casino in the fashionable suburb of Heitzing. Until the father's death five years later, the two Johann Strausses were bitter rivals for the title of Waltz King...
...blooded murderer. A young practitioner, he had married the niece of rich old Thomas H. Swope of Kansas City, who lived in a large country place near Independence. In October 1909 Dr. Hyde was called to Independence to care for another of his wife's uncles, old James Moss Hunton who was down with apoplexy. Dr. Hyde took two quarts of blood out of Uncle Moss and the patient promptly died. Two days later Uncle Tom complained of a stomach ache. Dr. Hyde gave him a capsule and he, too, promptly died. On Thanksgiving Day, Dr. Hyde...