Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago. Famed and farflung Aviation Corp. and its operating subsidiary. American Airways, were on their way to the Kingdom of Cord, and the hardbitten little man who would henceforth rule them undisputed could grin more satisfiedly than ever at the 14 years that have passed since he was selling Moon autos in an agency on lower Michigan Avenue...
...having whipped together a quick fortune out of Moon, Auburn and Cord automobiles, Errett Lobban Cord set out to head the "largest air passenger and express unit, in the world."* He laid siege to Avco which, as a stockholder, he thought was being mismanaged. He felt it was worrying too much about its bulging portfolio of stocks, too little about its basic business of flying planes. He thought there was too much Wall Street atmosphere about the company, too little airport smell...
Three-Cornered Moon by Gertrude Tonkonogy; Richard Aldrich de Liagre, producers). Feyest of the Rimplegars of Brooklyn is Mother Rimplegar (Cecilia Loftus), who is generally attired in a Mother Hubbard, with a huge towel wrapped about her silly head. Absentmindedly she gives all her money to someone whose name she believes to be Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive...
Last act of Three-Cornered Moon is even more erratic than the first two. The brother passes his examination. The novelist is dismissed. While lunatic panic sweeps through the house Elizabeth and her businesslike sweetheart settle themselves on the stairway for a little lovemaking. It is 6 a. m. Mother Rimplegar wistfully wanders in mending...
...clutter of ice, the explorers were passing along an iceberg when another berg charged, passed, missing them by yards. The charging berg "ran up against the first berg with a heavy thud that would have squeezed us to powder. . . . We saw in the far distance the reflection of the moon on an iceberg to leeward...