Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moon rotates on its axis in the same period in which it revolves around the earth. Consequently the moon presents nearly the same hemisphere toward the earth at all times. It is always the face of the "man in the moon" that we see and never the back of his head...
...could ever sing the blues like "Rush" (Jim Rushing) can. Ella Fitzgerald sings a clever half-time chorus on Chick Webb's "Undecided" (Decca) ... Good sweet playing by the band and Bob Eberle's singing make Jimmy Dorsey's dise of his own tune "It's Anybody's Moon," successful ... Both "Mary's Idea" by Andy Kirk and "Shorty George" by Count Basie are examples of solid Kansas City swing...
...British Interplanetary Society is a group of 100-odd enthusiasts who think a voyage to the moon by rocket-ship could be undertaken right away, if the necessary funds (about $1,250,000) were forthcoming. U. S. rocketeers, a more conservative crowd than their fellow dreamers across the sea, had their hair raised last week when they read, in the latest B. I. S. Journal, an article entitled "The Payload on the Lunar Trip." This juicily detailed the equipment to be taken on the first lunar voyage, sounded as though the takeoff were scheduled for next week. Excerpts...
...course be the basis of all beverages, chief amongst which will be cocoa, though a small amount of coffee might be necessary as a stimulant for navigators falling asleep over their interminable calculations. It is debatable whether some alcoholic beverage should be permitted to celebrate the landing on the moon but there will in any case be a small amount in the medicine chest...
Rocket to the Moon. Clifford Odets' intense and churning drama about "middleclass love" (TIME...