Word: moths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since a Republican was elected Governor of New York,* Empire State Republicans have become connoisseurs of defeat. Close races, hot races, dull races-Republicans lost them all. As years passed, the moth-eaten oldsters who ran the party were succeeded by youngsters, but their goal of dignified defeat and their manner of well-bred defeatism remained the same...
Last week, after taking it out of moth balls twice before when times were good, Chicago's Washington Park-with all the fanfare of a Mardi Gras-staged a $62,000 revival of the American Derby, aimed to make it once more the richest three-year-old race...
Last week the Army went back to field uniform (khaki or O. D.). Issued at Washington was an order putting the new blues and all other formal uniforms back into moth balls except for one kind of occasion-social functions at the White House...
...cheerful On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen, sung by Author Johnnie Mercer, who never quite explains the nature of his raucous reunion, and Bing Crosby, who continually calls for a gypsy moth...
...departed, Gay New Orleans offers a third show called Mardi Gras Frolic. This is a somewhat bolder type of entertainment. The clown, for example, who earlier in the evening cavorted on a lamppost, now cavorts on a huge statue of a nude. Muriel Page does a dance symbolizing the moth & the flame, in which her wings get burned and the rest of her clothes are hastily doffed to prevent the fire from spreading. But the spirit of burleycue reaches its climax with a "Wonder Woman" named Carrie Finnell, who has no wings to burn...