Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absolute rulers; of heart disease; at his country estate in Surrey, England. Educated at Eton and the officers' school at Woolwich, he ascended the Siamese throne in 1925. For nearly ten years he ruled eleven and a half million subjects who knew him as "Brother of the Moon," "HalfBrother of the Sun," "Possessor of the Four-and-Twenty Umbrellas." Six years ago he abdicated his throne on the refusal of the Cabinet to accept his demands for constitutional reform...
...anti-aircraft as well as other items, Ordnance is shooting for the moon and setting tentative (if always out-of-date) goals. It wants, for example, 6,000-plus 37-mm. anti-aircraft guns-apparently a good weapon against low flying planes (present production, 20 per month; desired production, 300 per month); 6,500-plus 37-mm. anti-tank guns-probably not heavy enough against modern tanks (current output: twelve per month); 400 or more 155-mm. field guns (current production: none); 3,500 light tanks (production now a promising 13 a day, being pushed toward 100); 1,800 medium...
...that night 24 German planes were destroyed. That was a night record but it stood only two nights. During the terrible raid on London (see below) 33 were shot down. It was not merely the full moon which made these high scores possible. There is a full moon every month, and ever since the first of the year the bag had increased: In January, 15, in February, 15, in March, 47, in April, 90, and 124 in the first ten nights...
...once in a blue moon does any large publishing firm pad its circulation figures-the basis on which its advertising is sold-but last week it became evident that one of the largest had done so. The publisher was MacFadden Publications, Inc. (True Story, Physical Culture, Liberty, True Romances and seven others) of which 73-year-old Bernarr MacFadden relinquished control three months ago. The story became known when the new management began cleaning house...
...time moon-faced Comedian Joe Cook has given a million laughs, and last week he got a lot back. While playing vaudeville in Washington, D.C. he saw his life story done in a professionally paced musicomedy, Cook Book, by The Harlequins of Washington's Catholic University. Last year Catholic University's drama department got the smart notion of biographing eminent Catholic show businessmen in musical shows, began with George M. Cohan on hand to salute his imitator...