Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet . . . and their round tires like the moon. . . . And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sack cloth; and burning instead of beauty...
...Sons o' Fun; its worst cave-in, The Lady Comes Across (a $200,000 musicalamity). Only producers to have had more than one hit were the Shuberts, but Gilbert Miller headed the mourners' bench with three flops. Movie money in general was tight, even though The Moon Is Down (because of its success as a book) went to 20th Century-Fox for a record $300,000, Let's Face It! to Paramount...
...week Secretary Wickard showed his courage, said he wished wheat acreage for next year could be slashed to 21,000,000 acres v. the present 55,000,000-acre legal minimum. Such a cut would require a Congressional O.K., something most Washington dopesters class with a trip to the moon. In 1943, therefore, the U.S. Government is likely to pay for another bumper wheat crop it does not need and cannot store. Meanwhile, Leon Henderson's assurance that wheat rationing is not immediately likely remains the year's greatest understatement...
John Steinbeck's The Moon is Down (TIME, March 9) has stirred up (as book and play) the year's liveliest literary fight. By now the battle has become a general war, involving book reviewers, theater critics, editors, people who write letters to the newspapers, diplomats, college professors and Dorothy Thompson. Two great questions are at issue: 1) Does Steinbeck put too much faith in the moral superiority of democracy? 2) Is Steinbeck wrong in portraying German soldiers as human beings? It has even been suggested that The Moon is veiled Nazi propaganda. In Manhattan the Belgian Commissioner...
Prominent among those who think that the Steinbeck moon is made of green cheese...