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Word: mooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen that it has so far taken losses on just 1/1,000% of all business done, observed with customary enthusiasm: "Fifty million dollars worth of building will feel the steam shovels Monday morning!" FHA Administrator McDonald, a onetime motormaker who produced the first cheap, goodlooking car (Moon, Diana), has already done his part. He built himself a house at Palm Beach this winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Dollars & Shovels | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Featuring a "word to the wise" one article says, "When the moon comes up over a silvery southern sea, and you stand on the promenade in your gold formal with a big handsome thing, watching the porpoises playing around the stern of the ship--then beware, if your friend is a Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Beware if Your Friend Is a Harvard Man," Warns Planned Radcliffe Guide | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

...professionals from downtown Los Angeles, planned an all-Negro story that would more or less parallel the Brown Bomber's shuffling clamber to fame. Taking on a wonderful waxworks-plus-minstrel-show quality from its principal player, Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated for many a moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...MOON is MAKING-Storm Jameson -Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stubborn Saint | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Although the sentimental novels of J. B. Priestley have contradicted the stock picture of Yorkshiremen as the most stubborn, blunt-speaking cranky-wits going, the Yorkshire novels of Storm Jameson have usually fitted the picture very well. In The Moon is Making, a pre-War family chronicle, she shows as stubborn and crotchety a collection of Yorkshiremen as ever stumped. But also among them is one who comes near to being a stubborn Yorkshire saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stubborn Saint | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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