Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jokes touching any member of the Royal Family were abruptly and permanently barred by the British Broadcasting Corporation last week as postmen arrived with truckloads of protests against a quip broadcast from Leamington by Comedian Ernie Moss. Referring to the world's largest underwater tunnel, lately opened by His Majesty (TIME, July 30), shrill Mr. Moss chirped: "I was to have opened the Mersey Tunnel but the King charged a pound less, so I didn...
...Seattle Lloyd Ritzman, 17, raised the price of his fishing worms to 25¢ per 100, explained: "I make them self-cleaning by packing them in moss for a couple of days before they are sold. This wipes off the slime as the worm crawls, and makes it possible for the fisherman to grasp it firmly...
...Four years of college life, four years of bitter strife, four years of halcyon existence have sapped our resistance. As our President has so aptly said in his recent Baccalaureate address, anything worth doing well is worth trying or at least putting off until tomorrow, since it gathers no moss in the good old summer time.' Gentlemen, your future lies behind me, and before you I see my past--my present past, which in no sense your future past is yet my past present for your future, and my past which was to have been will...
...proper humidity during shipment from his bug nursery in Glendale, near Los Angeles, to the cooperative group of Virginia growers who wanted them to patrol some 16,000 acres. Packing case after packing case was withdrawn from the 60x40 ft. cold-storage room, the water carefully doused on the moss in the cases and the huge ladybird army started east under refrigeration. Then Robert Bogue sent a bill...
...would need to be even more modest than Irving Berlin not to be proud of As Thousands Cheer, with its sure-fire title, its quick topical lines on which Moss Hart collaborated, its lyrics and music which Berlin wrote alone, varying his mood until it was hard to believe that the same man had written gentle, reminiscent "Easter Parade" and stomping Harlemy "Heat Wave." The box-office success of As Thousands Cheer beats that of Of Thee I Sing, the 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winning show for which George Gershwin wrote the music. It is running far ahead of Jerome Kern...