Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright half-moon shining on Madrid from a clear, starry sky helped intensify the bloody horror of Spain's Civil War last week. It meant that the capital's inhabitants, beleaguered for nearly four months, had no respite even at night from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White bombers...
...Calder, who attains a relatively high precision by the use of the electrical methods of measuring light. He finds, for instance, that the sun in 26.54 magnitudes brighter than the star Capella--that is, over thirty billion times as bright. "His measures for both the Sun and the Moon are appreciably different from the conventionally accepted values, for he finds the sun fainter and the moon brighter...
...from 1921 to 1935 he has year after year collaborated on such historic hits as Dnloy (1921), To the Ladies (1922), Merton of the Movies (1922), Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Cocoannts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), Animal Crackers (1928), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight (1932), Let 'em Eat Cake (1933), Merrily We Roll Along (1934), First Lady (1935). This season George Kaufman was once more Broadway's Man-of-the-Year when he turned...
...critic has climbed over the fence and given Gauguin's painting nearly as high marks as he gave it himself, but few champions have been found for Gauguin's behavior as a man. Author Somerset Maugham's fictional version of Gauguin's life (The Moon and Sixpence) is still the popular...
Other revivals in yesterday's installment included "A Trip to the Moon" produced in 1902, "The Great Train Robbery" of 1903, "Faust" of 1907, and Sarah Bernhardt in "Queen Elizabeth" released in 1911. This series gave some idea of the beginnings of the film industry, when the camera was held in one position, and the characters moved back and forth in front of it, never approaching or receding, thus giving the effect of the legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could...