Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer does the hulking Italian liner Rex have to stop at Quarantine for medical inspection since the granting eight months ago of "radio pratique" to certain liners entering New York harbor (TIME. Sept. 6). It stopped there last week, however, to let two moon-faced gentlemen climb down a gangplank to a Coast Guard cutter. The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator's Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of alien squad members, policemen. State Department and Italian Embassy officials, and rushed...
...because geodesists do not really know how to make accurate maps of the earth's surface. A black-bordered rectangle bore the legend: "These honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon for fear that laymen would discover that the universe is not running according to man-made schedule; that Alexander ("Town Crier") Woollcott is an ardent Fortean who gives away dozens of Fort's books to friends; that Booth Tarkington would discuss Fortism in the next issue. No better...
...more than a billion greater than last year. Though bears suggested that most of this fat income had already been spent in anticipatory or installment buying, leaving only a wrung-out remnant for fall business, joy reigned in most rural hearts as the nine billion dollar harvest moon approached its full...
...high spots of the field work was a night occupation of gun positions without benefit of lights or moon, and subsequent firing at daybreak, with service ammunition, to check the accuracy of the tpographical operations by which the guns were pointed at their respective targets. The rigors of field service were profusely illustrated on the night of July 30-31st when the Harvard-Yale Battery marched, by truck convey, to Fort Ticonderoga and bivouaced for the night beside the old stone ramparts. It was the first night spent in the open with only pup-tents overhead. Mother Nature celebrated...
...clock: Now they're really on their way. A steady stream from now until moon. "Have ya got any ink?" "God! Did you ever have to write so much!" "Is this what those exams here are like?" "What a noise that bell makes." "Would you like to pay this $5 now?" "Brother, if I had $3 now, I'd stand right up there and sing...