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Word: moone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father who had brought him up a Liberal, his brother Socrates, two of his favorite generals, Estrada and Umanzor, and the Minister of Agriculture, Sofonias Salvatierra, his host in Managua. From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place. Across the lake a pink plume of smoke rose from Mount Momotombo, most perfect of the volcanoes Sandino and his countrymen reverence as their national emblem. Farther north; 100 mi. through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Murder at the Crossroads | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Edward B. Marks was a hook & eye salesman, peddling songs on the side, when he decided to go into music publishing. The big songs then were "Annie Rooney" (1890), "Daisy Bell" (1892), "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon" (1892), "The Sidewalks of New York" (1894). Marks wrote a lyric, "The Lost Child." Joe Stern, a necktie salesman, wrote the music. They plugged their product with colored lantern slides which showed a policeman encountering in the streets a waif, who at the station house turns out to be his long-lost daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songbook | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...drift into war as anybody else, providing somebody else starts the war. You must not be put off by the humbug about disarmament. The possibility of diabolical war must be faced, though I hope and trust it will peter out in general ridicule." In the House of Commons moon-faced Winston Churchill, a jingoist since he first marched off to the Boer War at the age of 22, roared the loudest: "An entirely new situation has been created by rubbing the sore of the disarmament conference until it has become a cancer, and largely by the uprush of the Nazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Worries | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Broomsticks, Amen! (by Elmer Greensfelder; produced by Thomas Kilpatrick). "All things come in threes," intones the patriarch of the Hofnagel family, holding aloft a length of red string. "Birth, life and death. Sun. moon and stars. Father, mother and child." The old man is "doing for" a neighbor's sick baby. From head to foot over the infant, lying on a table beneath his rapt gaze, he draws the red string from which he then plucks some invisible thing and casts it aside. He mutters "sanctious words," with his own hand scoops away the evil aura enveloping the small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Richard Aldrich (Harvard '25) and Alfred de Liagre Jr. (Yale '26) are two of Broadway's least experienced managers but in By Your Leave, as in Three Cornered Moon which they produced last year, they showed good casting sense. Dorothy Gish looks younger than she is (36). Howard Lindsay, who dramatized the season's successful comedy, She Loves Me Not, has not acted since he played the scenario writer in Dulcy (1921). Kenneth MacKenna, who is currently being divorced by Kay Francis, sounds Scotch and specializes in Scottish roles, but his real name is Leo Mielziner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

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