Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frosty, white-haired President Francis Edward Frothingham of the Investment Bankers Association of America has a watch which, besides telling the time, boasts a chime, a barometer and a gadget that registers how the moon will be each night. Last week as I. B. A. gathered for its annual convention at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the moon was only a thin sliver - an appropriate symbol for the investment banking business. Keynoted retiring President Frothingham: "Broadly speaking, there has for some time been no flow of new capital, the capital that employs men. From an average...
They eat toast and tea together in the big, noisy grill at the station--as enjoyable a morning meal as Vag has partaken of in many a moon. She is in one of her most charming moods, chatting gaily about people and occurrences at home which are very interesting and amusing. As she talks Vag looks at her closely. Can this be the little girl he used to go to Sunday School with? And blush with at dancing class? Surety this isn't the same little wretch whose--yes, whose bloomers used to droop so sadly years...
...Night had gathered her sable robes over the highest cliffs, and my ship reached through a shoreless sea of silver cloudlets brushed with the glint of the moon and myriad jewels in the dome above. Earth was behind as though my soul itself had left it. Heaven must be like this, I said...
Franklin Roosevelt refers to the leaders of such movements as the "lunatic fringe." Their lunacy, if such it is, is ever among human beings, the urge of Something for Nothing. The moon which causes that lunacy may be the earth's satellite or human evolution, but the moon is powerful. It has created a tide in the affairs of men which this year crested in California under the name of "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday," alias "Ham & Eggs." Under this scheme the State would give everyone aged 50 or more $30 of State scrip every Thursday and retire the scrip...
...good eyesight of basically healthy California appeared already to be discovering that the overfull moon which hung above the State was made of green cheese. Dopesters give the "Ham & Eggs" one chance in three of winning. Pathetic appeared the lot of those who have spent their pennies supporting it, but tragic will be the political fate of Sheridan Downey and his managers if, having won nomination through "Ham & Eggs," they are swamped by reaction against...