Word: moone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succession the Imperial contributions. From the Emperor: From my own dreams to the weal of my people, thou, Chanticleer, Turnest my thoughts at thy call of the dawn. From the Empress: Send thy joyous clarion call, O Chanticleer, even to the dawning sky, Where fast retiring, yet lingering, the moon to earth draws near. From the Dowager Empress: Let the weary travelers of night take heart again At early dawn when suddenly comes Chanticleer...
...Moon's Mountain...
...Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier's own sovereign, was once a Cossack sergeant...
...years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There was Boss Tweed's fire engine, Americus No. 6, whose dashboard was decorated with the original Tammany Tiger. There were ship models of every carrier that has plowed the harbor from the Half Moon to the Bremen. Brigadier General Clinton De Witt Falls gave a collection of the uniforms of the old 7th Regiment (the original National Guard), from. 1823 to 1931. Banker Speyer, who lives almost next door, gave a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with the stipulation that he might take...
...Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque. "Horse in the Moon" silhouets a bridegroom, apoplectic with lust, and the head of a dying horse against a copper moon. The bride, seeing these two dying animals, and hearing the cries of anticipant ravens in the empty heavens, runs for home and father. Theme of "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars" is that every individualized consciousness is circumvallated by whatever body it may inhabit. The stars knew not that the cat killed the goldfinch; the cat knew nothing about that particular finch; the bird did not know that...