Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the worst thing was "the boneless quality of English conversation . . . like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.'' But it saved Author Halsey from feeling inferior. English weather, about which most conversation revolved, made her think "I was going to grow a coating of moss on the north side." but she liked the green countryside. She ridiculed the diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that death-in-life which the Britons...
Canaries, firecrackers and some $200,000 worth of other miscellaneous equipment were part of the paraphernalia for Columbia's biggest feature of the year: You Can't Take It With You, Screenwriter Robert Riskin's adaptation of the smash hit play by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, for which Columbia's President Harry Cohn last year paid a record price of $200,000. By the end of June, with a new flock of birds added to a cast which already included such rarities as Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Donald Meek, Spring Byington...
...Hepatica hour a Person You Didn't Expect to Meet. Last week the person was 15-year-old Joseph Becker, who described how he ran his Bronx Baby Minding Service. One of the people who thus unexpectedly met Joseph Becker was New York's License Commissioner Paul Moss, who three days later summoned the young impresario, told him it is against the law to run an employment agency without a license. "I'll start another career," said Joseph Becker...
...glassy Bayou Barataria last week, 70 of these homemade vessels lined up for the third annual four-mile race to determine the No. 1 piroguer of the U. S. Favorite with the 5,000 spectators who gathered under the ancient, moss draped oaks was 19-year-old Adam Billiot, winner...
...mysterious Ruwenzori Range in Uganda, anciently called the Mountains of the Moon, which had been climbed successfully only twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori, Mountaineer Tilman admits that he and his companion, Eric Shipton, lost their way, their...