Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes home again with Rose and happier times follow. One midsummer evening in her 15th year Linda walks out in the apple-orchard, lies on the ground, feels a strange change in her mind, her blood. Shawn's farm is no longer the heart of her world. The orange moon, ris ing over the apple trees, is to set her life's tides from now on. She leaves the orchard a woman...
...years every time that one of Willard's comic strip characters referred to Moon Mullins as a "banjo-eyed bum," I have agreed with them that that is just what Mr. Mullins is. But I could never figure it out. Your issue of May 23 says, inter alia, "banjo-eyed Norman Klein." Do Klein's eyes look like banjos, or does Mr. Klein look like Moon Mullins? And another thing, that expression is the only one that angers our Mr. Mullins; a sort of "when you say that, smile" business. Are you not taking considerable chances that...
When Reporter Klein worked for the Chicago Tribune his wife nicknamed him "Banjo-eyes" because his round eyes would frequently bug with astonishment like those of Moon ("Banjo-Eyes'') Mullins, hard-boiled Tribune comic strip character...
...Earth. Only heavenly things known to have ever approached closer were the regular PonsWinnecke comet (3,500,000 mi., June 27, 1927) and the vanished Lexell comet (1,500,000 mi. in 1770). Another point: the Reinmuth Object swung within the Earth's orbit. Only the Moon and an occasional comet head have been known to do that. The heavy Moon (2,160 mi. diameter), averaging 238,857 mi. from Earth, is gripped as a satellite. The 3-mi. Reinmuth Object four to eight million miles out might conceivably be held as a second moon within Earth...
This is the Vagabond's present existence, but he must stop writing about it now. The hour grows late and he must eat as other men do. Besides, as the sun plunges into the west, so, at the same time, the moon surges up in the east, and he must go and do as other...