Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared to the burden the moss-encrusted universities of the Old World have to bear, three hundred years is but as a day; but in a civilization that has lustily risen--and, say some, is already declining--in just that span, Old Harvard has a right to indulge itself in habits that have grown up with the years, habits that have become traditions, habits that, perhaps, have lost all trace of their original reason. More than any other college in America, that aged seat of learning is justified in stroking its long grey beard, settling back in its easy chair...
...Thousands Cheer (words & music by Moss Hart & Irving Berlin; Sam Harris, producer). Even more tasteful than The Band Wagon, every bit as funny as Of Thee I Sing, this revue began turning away a cue of ticket seekers at 11 o'clock on the morning after its first night. What people missed...
...next best thing," and it is truly the next best thing on the current Metropolitan program. Against the background of that baronial Ireland which his own plays made popular, Mr. Fiske O'Hara disports with his comely daughters, Janet Gaynor and Margaret Lindsay. All is a haze of moss, lichen, and the soft tints of old stone, with a plethora of brogue and much quasi-Irish sentiment, which is to say that "Paddy" is closely related to "Sweetheart Darlin'," and at a respectful distance from Synge and Lady Gregory. Warner Baxter is very rich, the Adairs are genteel but poor...
Sympathetic British editors were outraged when George V, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales were burlesqued at the tryout in Philadelphia of the new Sam Harris-Irving Berlin-Moss Hart "musical satire," As Thousands Cheer...
After a week the deer had grown accustomed to being gaped at, was eating the sweet corn and drinking the water lowered daily from the cliff, sleeping on a bale of hay. Hemlock branches and moss were strewn across the five-foot-wide plank bridge, a trail of salt sprinkled across it as a lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly...