Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merola is no Toscanini but he is probably the world's nerviest, luckiest conductor. Some years ago he gave open-air opera at Stanford Stadium, lost his Italian backers a tidy sum. But at just the right time each evening a full moon rose...
...Miss Veedol, flew around the world July 28-Oct. 18. 1931. Main delays were caused by a muddy field at Khabarovsk and the suspicious Japanese Government. Rechristened The American Nurse, the ship started for Rome from Floyd Bennett Field, was lost far at sea on a night when the moon was in eclipse...
...seldom in London. Her story is of the small details of life in the country and the short excursions and walks she and William and Samuel Coleridge would make of impressions of the fugitive beauty of a scene, or of the way the leafless branches looked against the moon. These Mrs. MacLean has gleaned from the voluminous Journal and the letters, and presented them so that they give a vivid impression of Dorothy's life and personality...
...been a warm July day, and the red moon was full as it sank lower in the western sky. The light gleamed almost too perfectly over the sinking tide, showing dimly the outlines of the hills on the mainland; far across the bay lights gleamed on a yacht, and there was a lightly-heard music from the deck where guests of a very rich sinner were dancing. There were only two figures on the great rocks by the beach, watching the silent panorama of moon and stars, listening to the waltzes from the distant craft. They were completely alone...
...products, except for a pro-French interlude during the War. By her juniors she is rated respectfully as an old lady writer of surprising youth, surprising up-to-date notions. Among her many books: The House of Mirth, Old New York, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, Twilight Sleep, Hudson River Bracketed...