Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first impression of Konitsa, as we bumped into the main square at the foot of the town, was that the shellfire had not done much damage. The houses are solid affairs built of grey stone with ivy and moss growing on the eternally damp walls. The shells merely seemed to have chipped their Turkish-built solidity...
...Britons seemed content to call armistice on austerity for the moment at least. Some pickets at the Savoy Hotel obligingly effaced themselves when the bride turned up there for a reception. Despite royal permission that business suits be worn by gentlemen at the ceremony, wedding guests were swamping famed Moss Bros. with orders for rented cutaway coats and striped trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear in all their...
October graduates named are Maurico C. Benewitz '47 of Hartford, Connecticut; Joseph S. Berliner '48 of Harvardevens; Sheldon R. Braiterman '48 of Ballimore; Mark R. Leiserson '48 of Washington; Donald R. Miller '47 of Jersoy City, New Jersoy; William J. Moss '44 of St. Pail. Minnesota; Alexander Rich '46 of Springfield; Alan R. Solomon '42 of Cambridge...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...
...rally parade of last night was like the rolling stone. It picked up a little momentum en route but not very much moss. Only when the marchers finally drew up in front of the Indoor Athletic Building did imperceptible accretions to the fringe of the mob begin to gather...