Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MOON IS FEMININE - Clemence Dane-Doubleday, Doran...
Thus, the story of Henry Cope. 1803 hero of The Moon Is Feminine, a rich, dilettante bachelor with "quick" green eyes, narrow forehead, "Wertherish smile," is too brightly in the manner of Virginia Woolf to be missed by the dimmest-sighted reader. But Clemence Dane has her own transformer for cutting down Virginia Woolf's voltage to serve more popular tastes: the mood of her legend comes nearer to those melancholy romances which flourished in the 90s-dark young women floating beautifully dead in lily ponds...
...MOON LOOKS DOWN AND LAUGHS (Billie Halliday; Vocalion). Another capable dusky diseuse, a little sultrier than Miss Fitzgerald (see above...
...spend the two weeks which are her annual reward for 50 weeks of drudgery as a Manhattan stenographer. They quarrel, make up, and fall in love. The incidents of their romance are pathetically meagre-dances to the music of the camp band, a brief mutual inspection of the moon, a single excursion by canoe to Eagle Rock. Behind these incidents, imprinted with the devastating clarity of a picture-post card, is an animated bird's-eye view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp Kare-Frees -the crude japeries of the camp...
...American Newspaper Guild has known but one President: Scripps-Howard's mussy, curly-headed Columnist Heywood Broun. Hunched over a table like a rising half moon, Chairman Broun always sits when he presides over Guild conventions. After five conventions, Sitting Broun remains a good-natured, efficient chairman. Last week he was reelected by affectionate acclamation, but with little affection Executive Vice-President Jonathan Eddy was re-elected after two ballots...