Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these are the last hours of Cairo they are certainly glorious hours. The days are hot, but not sizzling hot, and the nights are cool, brightened by a gigantic bomber's moon, which makes the Pyramids visible miles away...
...years ago, wealthy Mr. (then Congressman) Dempsey ran for the U.S. Senate from New Mexico. Behind him was a record as one of the most effective, best-liked legislators the House had seen in a blue moon. But his opponent, Senator Dennis Chavez, had a slick political machine. Dempsey lost, took the interim Interior job. Now he wanted to go back to New Mexico and run for Governor...
...children how his dog ran home with a note from him and came back with the spurs. In his old age he described the beginning of the adventure in a line more alive than any ever written about him: "It was young flood, the ship* was winding and the moon was rising...
...Humorist James Thurber ("This little book needs more guts and less moon. . . If these are German officers ... I will eat the manuscript of your next play...
Warmest defenders of The Moon are Novelist Pearl Buck, Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, Dorothy Thompson, Book Reviewer Lewis Gannett. Gannett called the "totalitarian crusade" against the story "a depressing example of wartime hysteria." Said Dorothy Thompson: "I know dozens of German officers who were thoroughly mature when last I enjoyed friendly relations with them, and they were just like [Colonel Lanser].... The enormous power in Mr. Steinbeck's drama is that it is not an attack on Nazis. It is an attack on Naziism." Meanwhile The Moon is Down is doing quite nicely. As a novel, it has sold...