Word: moonbeam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moonbeam & the Wind. The bird's finest hour came when French Communist Pierre Gamarra turned it into a charming fable. The wind and a moonbeam visit Pablo Picasso in his home on the Riviera. They beg him for a bird, big and strong, to carry a little girl to Wonderland. "To Wonderland?" asks Picasso, rubbing his chin. "What's wrong with this little girl?" "She's afraid of war," whispers the wind. Whereupon Picasso seizes his pen and draws a white dove...
...miracle, the dove rises from the paper and joins the moonbeam and the wind in flight back to the little girl's room. The little girl sits on the dove's back and off they fly, across the Alps, the Caucasus, the Urals. "Voici l'immense Union Soviétique. A great, a very great country," says the dove. "Yes, a big country full of song," agrees the little girl. "Here they work and sing," says the dove. "And now, look here, the Himalaya, and down there is China." "I hear the singing in China, too," says...
...Though Capp sometimes talks his wife into spending stretches of weeks in Manhattan, she is a woman "who gets sleepy at n o'clock" and pines for the New England countryside. Capp has mirrored his astonishment at this phenomenon by making her the model for a character named Moonbeam McSwine, a lovely girl but one who "likes to stay down on the farm with the hawgs...
...Cellophane, bellboy, melancholy, belladonna, flamingo, wilderness, tambourine, lavender. Last week Logophile Colby reported the results of a new readers' poll. Mother had slipped a bit, but was still listed among the top ten. There were eight new favorites. The 1950 hit parade: melody, lullaby, mimosa, memory, mellow, mother, moonbeam, murmuring, beautiful, lanolin...