Word: moon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons cannot? What can cat do that dog cannot? What can sun do that moon and stars cannot? Chief worry of Tester Terman, besides that of having any of his 258 questions published and thus made easy for young newspaper and magazine readers, is that the Stanford-Binet is often given by incompetent or overanxious persons. He takes little stock in many of the fabulous...
...night in the year 1170. Outside there is no moon and the wind screams along the walls of the castle. Inside there is a feeling of tenseness, a knowledge by all the company that something is going to happen. The banqueting tables have been relieved of their fare and pushed aside. Up and down the gloomy room the lords and ladies walk and talk in guarded voices...
...Philadelphia last week several hundred clergymen were invited to the Planetarium donated by Soapman Samuel Simeon Fels to the Franklin Institute. They beheld ''The Easter Story," projected not only with lights showing how the moon and sun determine the falling of Easter Sunday (this year: March 28) but also-to the accompaniment of phonograph records and scripture readings-with flood and spotlights which were supposed to suggest crosses and angels...
Many who heard the world premiere of Lazare Saminsky's Pueblo, a Moon Epic last week agreed that his "orchestral rhapsody'' fell short of the billing. Composer Saminsky had written it for Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, on a special commission from the League of Composers. He divided it into two parts: "Sick of the Snow, the Shia Seed'' and "Call of the Wind; Highward Ho." Into these movements he worked tribal tunes, war cries, corn & moon dances of Indians in the Southwest. Listeners enjoyed its orchestral color and primitive drummings, but disliked...
...Exhausted from a 50-week grind in city offices, they are pitiably anxious to have fun on their precious fortnight's vacation, to put their best foot forward with the other guests, perhaps even to find a wife or husband, for Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas and has a way with the "pigeons" (girls...