Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under heading "Frogs eat Duck," TIME, Aug. 31, I would like to tell you about the big bull frog I found on the sandy shore of Half Moon Pond in New Hampshire...
...full moon in Cambridge is like a campaign speech of "Fighting Bob" La Follette's before a group of deaf mutes. In the country there is some raison d'etre for a moon. Mountains, valleys, and tall timber are creatures of the night. They take on new lustre and majesty in cool October moonlight, and the awkwardness of day is softened. There have been, there are, and there will be many apostles of the moon. An Emperor or of Rome, one Caligula, a mad wight, once paid court and married her. He died soon after, broken hearted and without...
These and kindred thought welled up within the Vagabond's soul as he stared up some nights ago at the clear harvest moon. Cambridge is a hard place for such gifts of nature, but the wanderlust was upon him. There dashed across his mind the swift thought that the dubutante season had begun. It was a tough thought, but classes had just begun and there was the moon. And, for a bit of rationalization, it is the Vagabond's business to have traffic with all peoples. Like the cat that walks by himself all places are alike...
Steps In The Run. Britain's immediate money troubles go back to 1925, when to uphold British prestige Winston Spencer Churchill, moon-faced Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, put the pound back on a gold basis. It had fallen as low as $3.15 in December 1921. If Britain's international banking was to resume shop, the pound had to be restored to its old value ($4.8665) to protect British foreign investments. So the pound was forced to par. Interest rates at London were fixed high to attract foreign deposits. A $200,000,000 credit was obtained...
...when he was 9. At 16 he was a reporter on the Baltimore American, at 19 its music critic. He was a piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays: The Spider, Behold This Dreamer. Books: Sandalwood, Stepchild of the Moon.) Few years ago he attached himself to Publisher Macfadden, wrote The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden as a serial in Physical Culture...