Word: moppet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voluble Howard Chandler Christy was born 62 years ago in Morgan County, Ohio, where as a cow-milking moppet he was known as "Smiley." In 1889 he went to New York with $200 in savings, entered the Art Students' League, quickly got himself into the class of the late William Merritt Chase. Chase painted in the bravura style with which Italy's Boldini, and Sweden's Zorn were able to produce first-rate works of art. For nearly 50 years Howard Chandler Christy has used the same flashy style but without the same results...
...plutocrats in the fine apartment, informs on a boyhood friend named "Babyface" Martin. Martin's predilection for homicide has ranked him as Public Enemy No. 1. At the same time, the dramatist shows by inference how "Babyface" Martins are made by tracing the activities of a moppet named Tommy (Billy Halop) and his juvenile gang. There is nothing more seriously the matter with Tommy than that he has lice in his hair, which his loyal sister attempts to remove with a can of kerosene. But environment leads him to rob a rich boy, stab the boy's father...
Forty-five years ago when Winifred Sweet was a slim, pretty young woman with red hair and blue eyes, the Examiner assigned her to a children's playground party. There she met a "tall, handsome, well-groomed young man" who helped her quiet a howling moppet. Back in the office she met the tall young man again, answered brusquely when he asked: "What became of the Bull of Bashan?" She then learned that the tall young man was her boss, William Randolph Hearst, who had lately bought "that new paper on Montgomery Street." Since then she has never been...
Facing his first stiff re-election fight in years, Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah turned up at the Parma, Idaho, Fall Festival, treated each & every Parma moppet to a merry-go-round ride...
...Test" (determination of IQ) is under increasing fire from skeptics who hold that intelligence must be defined before a yardstick can be applied to it, that an individual's social value may be wholly unrelated to his IQ. These skeptics guffaw loudly when, every few months, some bright moppet turns up with an IQ claimed to be greater than Einstein's (TIME, Dec. 10). Lately the embattled proponents of the IQ, and of ability and personality tests in general, have strongly preferred "batteries" of examinations to single tests, in an effort to get a closer approximation...