Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another Tribune comic, "Moon Mullins," last week made things exceptionally difficult for parents who must explain the "funnies" to their children. Said small, tough "Kayo" Mullins: ". . . She called me a illiterate brat." Roared big, tough Moon Mullins: "She did, did she? Here, take your birth certificate over and show...
General Kundt sent tanks and flame throwers clattering into the Paraguayan shambles. As Bolivian troops poured in. thousands of little brown men fought back & forth in furious hand-to-hand combat. The sun went down and the moon came up. Two outlying Paraguayan forts were raked by merciless Bolivian machine gun fire. Paraguayans, famed as South America's fiercest fighters with bayonet and machete, rallied under the leadership of White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa...
First of the summer operas was Aïda with Anne Roselle and Frederick Jagel of Manhattan's Metropolitan, Giuseppe Martino-Rossi and about 150 other voices on the Dell's 60 ft. stage. Footlights, border lights, electric towers, side spotlights and a "traveling moon" made the shell look to some listeners like an opera-lover's Fourth of July. Philadelphians looked forward to seven more operatic productions including Traviata, Faust, and Rigoletto. Next year. Conductor Smallens promised to have stage facilities adequate for Wagner...
...didn't care and wandered away inconsolable into the dark night. He haunted all the buildings where he had lived, and went into the Yard and touched the worn hollows in the steps of Sever where almost three generations of Harvard men had stepped. A hair of a new moon cradled in the branch of a dark pine over the white blur of University Hall. A cold wind suddenly rose. He cried to himself and plodded upstairs to the dusky loft...
...institution called Midwest (football rival: Yarwood) where Jack Oakie is the dormitory dunce, Lona Andre the campus belle, Richard Aden a neurotic footballer, and Bing Crosby the professor of music. With that inappropriate calm which is his chief distinction, Crosby yodels songs called "Learn to Croon," "Play Ball," "Moon-struck," ''The Old Ox Road." Paramount, more versatile than its competitors, has two types of musical pictures. Those in which Maurice Chevalier is directed by Ernst Lubitsch are for metropolitan consumption. The others, of which this is a fair sample, contain as many radio clowns and crooners as possible...