Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around, to the wooden fence near the camp of the Bahamians, the barbed wire fence of the Texans, the Paul Bunyan display of the Wisconsin Scouts, the Florida encampment hung with Spanish moss. All day, every day the tent cities echoed with the wrangling of Young America trading what it possessed for something else it wanted...
...mind with indecent burlesque shows. It appears that the manner in which they would conduct the new enterprise, with its appeal to the lowest instincts of its patrons, would not in any way be changed from the old manner of producing burlesque shows." Thus New York License Commissioner Paul Moss, killer of burlesque (TIME, May 10), refused Brothers Morton and Herbert K. Minsky a license to present a "high class variety revue.'' Shouted Brother Morton: "We'll match our private lives with the Commissioner...
That modern treatment of mental diseases has gone a long way since colonial times is well illustrated by a description of such early methods of treatment as burning at the stake, iron shackles, "Madd-shirts," liberal doses of such drugs as "Spirit of Skull" (moss from the skull of a dead man unburied who had died a violent death). With exclusively mental hospitals limited to two until 1825, mental defectives were auctioned off to farmers, exhibited in cages for a fee, peddled at night from town to town in the hope of losing them. Called incurable until about 1830, insanity...
Nevertheless at noon on May 1, Commissioner Moss dillingered New York burlesque by announcing he was renewing the licenses of none of New York's 14 burlesque houses because "the type of performance, the language used, the display of nudity are coarse, vulgar and lewd and endanger public morality . . . and are a disgrace to the people of the City of New York...
Play. Play-of-the-year, according to the Pulitzer pickers, was You Can't Take It With You, a genial, highly professional piece of playwrighting by George S. Kaufman (Merrily We Roll Along, Stage Door), and Moss Hart (Once In A Lifetime, Jubilee) (TIME, Dec. 28). Sombre-eyed, successful Mr. Kaufman was in on the 1932 award for his part in Of Thee I Sing...