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Word: mooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objection?" This, correspondents pleaded, was not enough. A reigning monarch is never interviewed, but could they not have the honor of quoting Siam's former King of the North and of the South, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun and Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Easy Abdication | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...thing I want to ask you," said Prince Sukhodaya with the pent up emotion of one who has been King for ten long years, "in what you are writing about me, please do not talk about the 'brother of the moon' or the 'twenty-four umbrellas.' I am not the moon's brother. That is all bunk. There is a nine-tiered umbrella in our Siamese ritual, but I have no idea who invented the titles usually ascribed to me. . . . I like the English countryside. The Queen and I have done a lot of motoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Easy Abdication | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Four collections of poems by Archibald MacLeish are now on display in the Poetry Room of Widener Library. The exhibition contains "The Happy Marriage", his first published verse; "The Pot of Earth"; "Streets in the Moon"; and "Poems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Exhibition | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...poet, who graduated from Yale in 1915, was awarded an LL.B by Harvard in 1919. Among his more notable writings have been "The Hamlet of Archibald MacLeish," published in 1928. "The Happy Marriage," his first published verse. "The Pet of Earth," and "Streets in the Moon." In addition to these he has been a contributor to the Yale Review, the New Republic, and Transition. He has also written a play. "Nobodaddy," which appeared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLEISH TO DELIVER POETRY FUND ADDRESS | 2/12/1935 | See Source »

This was more exciting than any old Five-Year Plan. Declared moon-faced Premier Vyacheslav Molotov: "All this was done on the initiative of Stalin, and I hope you will approve the action of the "Party and the Government." Whooping with elation the 2,000 delegates leaped to their feet, cheered hard-jawed Dictator Joseph Stalin for 20 full minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Santa Stalin's Congress | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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