Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent friend in the late Otto Kahn. Most critics were indifferent when they heard her there. But she stayed three years, studied hard, paid the claque well. The Metropolitan label proved a sure entrée to radio and cinema. When Grace Moore appeared in New Moon with Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, she swore that her name would be posted...
...misty June moon shone down on Madison Square Garden's Long Island City Bowl one night last week as a solemn prizefighter in a blue bathrobe climbed through the ropes. The plain Irish face of James J. (born Walter) Braddock was puckered with earnest anxiety. Improvident of his earnings when he was a top-flight light heavyweight seven years ago, 29-year-old Jimmy Braddock had, after successive defeats, toppled completely out of the prize ring. He worked briefly as a janitor. He made a pittance as a stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed...
Last week for the 17th "Muny" opening there were 10,000 ardent spectators, a new producer, a new operetta and a new lighting system. The new producer was Broadway's smart Laurence Schwab (Good News, New Moon), successor to J. J. Shubert who has taken the "Muny" idea to Navin Field, Detroit. The new operetta was Teresina, a confection by Vienna's old Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier). At a cost of $25,000 two giant towers had been built to flank the big revolving stage, flood it with light, support an over-head bridge which provides more lights...
...fell silent. The earth shook, settled back, shook again longer and more violently, and then once more. "For half a minute the earth seemed to go mad," said a British survivor. "Boughs of trees, normally many feet from the ground, swept the earth. Birds fell from their nests. The moon danced crazily in the sky. The roar I can liken only to the sound of 20 express trains...
...Southern accent, was that the Day of Armageddon is at hand. "My language." said the Judge, "is wholly inadequate to describe that battle. But quotations will give you an idea." Thereupon he produced from Scripture a series of lurid pictures of plagues, storms, flashings of fire, quenchings of sun, moon and stars, and a rain of blocks of ice. "That," concluded Judge Rutherford, "will convince them that Jehovah is doing the fighting...