Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Griffin was alone in the fields, his little pack across his shoulder. It was a clear night, warm and silent, and the full moon the cynosure of all, and like the delicate, powdered nape of a woman it seemed to radiate an evening perfume, enticing the eye, cloying the nostril...
...Marquette iron range. Chief problem for interested capital was how to get ships into Lake Superior against the rapids of St. Mary's River. In Congress cold Henry Clay had killed an appropriation for a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, saying it might as well be on the moon. By 1852 Congress was of a different mind. In 1855 the first locks were completed and passed sailing ships carrying 1,447 tons of ore. Boomed by the Civil War, iron mining spread into new ranges in the West. In 1892 the greatest iron producer in the world, the Mesabi...
Hatched last week in the Manhattan offices of Adman Byron G. Moon was an ingenious scheme to end fabric design piracy. No matter how novel the design, fabrics cannot be successfully patented. Yet songs can be copyrighted. Ingenious Mr. Moon's idea is to use the title or a snatch of the lyric of a copyrighted song to designate print designs, thus extending to dress materials Tin Pan Alley's copyright protection. Adman Moon sees no reason why Night and Day should not identify a black & white print, and April in Paris a design of horse-chestnut blossoms...
With favorable opinion from more than one top-flight copyright lawyer, the Byron G. Moon Co. plans to promote "theme song print" dresses for women this autumn. From Music Publishers Protective Association Adman Moon obtained exclusive title rights to 300,000 copyrighted songs for 10% of the 1?-per-yd. "copyright fee" which the Moon Co. expects to collect from fabricators to whom it offers its titles. The Moon Co. has applied for 26 patents on the "theme song print" idea...
Though the man who will be crowned on May 12 may not have the "charm" of Edward Windsor, he promises to be as duty-bound and soundly virtuous as George V, one of whose homely maxims was "Teach me never to cry for the moon nor over split milk." Growing up under the careful eye of her grandmother, the heiress-presumptive promises to become a woman well equipped to be a second Queen Elizabeth. Such material for the throne, coupled with the fact that Premier Baldwin's government seems to have sharpened its democratic mace against Bolshevik and Fascist competition...