Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point that Virginia-born M. P. Lady Astor, ever ready to put in her tuppence worth, interrupted. She owns a deer park on the Isle of Jura, she said, which is all moss and peat and "fit for nothing but deer." Not even trout could be raised on it. Spunkily Lady Astor offered to build Mr. Kirkwood a cottage on her deer park on Jura and bet him he could not make a living off it. Machinist Kirkwood is no farmer, but he accepted-much too hastily, it turned out. The discussion was continued in the lobby...
...cypress and liveoak river bottoms of South Carolina's coastal fringe near Charleston are festooned with Spanish moss and legend. Here Generals Sumter, Greene and Francis Marion ("The Swamp Fox") harried Tarleton and Lord Rawdon at the Revolution's end. Here Sir Peter Parker's fleet was defeated at Sullivan's Island by General Moultrie, whose name was given to one of the forts near which the Civil War began three generations later. On forested uplands running back from the warm sea stood some of the South's finest oldtime plantations. Along the rivers...
...Companion. After James Upham died in 1905, The Upham Family Association of Maiden, Mass, announced that he had prepared the original draft, that Francis Bellamy was only one of several Companionate contributors to the final version. As president of the U. S. Flag Association, Colonel James A. Moss, U. S. A. retired, in 1930 approved the Upham claim...
About to erect a $30,000 memorial to James Upham in Washington, the Order of Jobs' Daughters of Portsmouth, Va. recently asked Colonel Moss to say that again. Job's Daughters, aged 13 to 20, "band together girls for spiritual and moral upbuilding, to teach love of country and flag . . . home, parents and elders." Just to be sure, he asked Historians Charles C. Tansill (America Goes to War), Bernard Mayo (Henry Clay) and Political Scientist W. Reed West to check up on him. That caution probably cost Patriot Upham a sumptuous monument. Last week Colonel Moss penitently announced...
...Action." On the newsstands appeared Vol. 1, No. 1 of Equality, "A Monthly Journal to Defend Democratic Rights and Combat Anti-Semitism and Racism." Conceived by Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein (a Catholic), Equality has on its editorial council such prominent Jewish intellectuals as Publisher Bennett Cerf, Playwrights Moss Hart and Lillian Hellman, Anthropologist Franz Boas. Its first issue contains articles on anti-Semitism by such potent non-Jews as Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Author Donald Ogden Stewart, Warden Lewis E. Lawes, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Its credo...