Word: ostermoor
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...librettists, who authored more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern and Rudolf Friml. Among...
...spent devotees of the social life have clambered between their matutinal sheets, the lithe young typical Harvard Senior will have sprang from his Ostermoor, dawned a Clupeco, and having finished the World's Work, will join the farces in front of Unworthy Hall at 8 o'clock. There will be a short cheer observed for the Freshman whose $5 cheque at the Picture was later honored by the Cambridge Truss Company. The long black line of brawlers will advance to U Four where Chidibidibee Osgood and Ceres Steel will lead conclusively the first two and the last three verses...
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