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Word: moone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moon-faced mayor of Tsingtao, Admiral Shen Hung-lieh of the insignificant Chinese Navy, at first did his best to have Chinese looters shot on sight, and numerous corpses accumulated in front of Japanese shops. Later as the mayor's authority crumbled, and as maddened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Chaos Into Ruins | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...before it, and even offering to embrace it. For it seems that dramatic expression is not intimate enough, and after the play is over Miss Greenwood overflows with motherly endearments, sings "An Old Man's Darling" in loud and lusty shrieks, and then burlesques sex in a piece called "Moon Melody," using to capacity her amazingly ungainly person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...Lindbergh is technical adviser to Pan American Airways, which holds, on Government sufferance, a monopoly of the country's over-ocean flying. And it so happens that Pan American is currently the centre of one of the prettiest little storms that has swirled in Washington in many a moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic Tussle | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

When the m-m-m-moon shines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...Lahr's theory that only a barytone can chop a tree. It has other virtues as well: Jimmy Savo, exquisite pantomimist whose film career was nearly blighted two years ago by a luckless appearance in Ben Hecht's & Charles MacArthur's haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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