Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineering in 1924, he shifted from one technical job to another, was fired by New York Edison Co. in 1929 when he protested a staff cut. For a short period later on he was president of the American Interplanetary Society, which propagandized the cause of sending rockets to the Moon. In 1932 he edited the only two issues of Technocracy Review, worked for Gernsback Publications through the summer...
...because he believed that a fellow engineer was needed in the White House, Engineer Lasser supported Socialist Norman Thomas in 1932, will support him again this year. Says this onetime inter-planetarian: "I have decided that it is necessary to remake the Earth before delving into life on the Moon...
...lira (80?) was suspended for the night. After filing in a long sacred procession through the Church of Il Redentore, some 10,000 Venetian youths and maidens of the rabble rowed out to the Lido in the year's greatest gondola fleet, slept on the beach under the moon, returned to Venice next morning. To bambini born of this Hymen Harvest, mellow Venetians give the name "Moon Children...
After 90 minutes with the nominee, one-time (1921-36) Comptroller General John R. McCarl sat down, wrote an enthusiastic blurb. Excerpt: "I venture to prophesy that his will be the most economical administration our country has experienced for many a moon-and in striking contrast with the extravagances now so prevalent...
...Federal grand jury in Los Angeles last week furnished the U. S. Press with its first convincing Spy Story in many a moon. In spite of the fact that the spy's accomplice was not a beautiful girl but, according to U. S. Attorney Peirson Hall of Los Angeles, a slender, fresh-faced young man, the yarn of the disloyal ex-sailor and the Japanese naval officer made bang-up copy...