Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course I know your heart, bright as the sun and moon...
...through the merger of the old Bureaus of Prohibition and of Industrial Alcohol Control. Boasting a doubled enforcement outfit, the super-efficient A.T.U. has announced to the country through its nominal chief, Mr. Morgenthau, that with the cooperation of the public it intends speedily to wipe out big-time moon shining and return to the public coffers the enormous revenue in taxes that now go to the bootleg industry...
...Shine On, Harvest Moon" blazed first in 1907, distinguished itself by coming back 25 years later, not as a sentimental hangover, but as a tune so fresh and melodic that many a youngster thought it was new. Jack Norworth wrote "Harvest Moon" when he and Nora Bayes were married. They sang it in the first Ziegfeld Follies in which Nora wore a white muslin dress, a floppy hat and Jack white flannels, a long blue coat and a pancake straw. The World-Telegram devotes its piece to Norworth, now a stalky, white-haired man who sells cocktail biscuits to supplement...
...scene. Mercury to the masses, purveyor of cheap speed on land and in the air, his spectacular rise has been accomplished in the 15 years since he was a Moon auto salesman in Chicago with a $35 weekly drawing-account. So many Moons did he sell that his 5% commissions brought in about $30,000 a year, netted him $100,000 with which he bought out wobbly Auburn Automobile Co. Youngest motorcar company president in the U. S. at 30, he built up a quick fortune which he expanded by, acquiring Duesenberg and a few companies manufacturing accessories. Until...
Shubert--"The Moon Rises". Shubert presents a conventional operetta in a very elaborate setting. Expensive assistance of glamorous-from-Paris heroine may please...