Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon was about half full, everything was quiet until we got to the point where the canal forked just before the two aqueducts. Then suddenly everything started at once-searchlights and all the anti-aircraft fire. It was unfortunate from our point of view, of course, that the enemy knew pretty well the direction from which we must attack. They had disposed their defenses so that they formed a sort of lane through which we had to pass. It seemed that they had strengthened these defenses a great deal since the first raids...
Minnesota's 11,000 Chippewa Indians call wild rice Mah-No-Men. They say it reverently, for wild rice is their cash crop, their "great gift from the Spirit of Heaven." August is the moon of its ripening, the month when the grain turns yellow and the lakes where the wild rice grows look like golden plains. After the ripening comes the moon of the harvest, when the Chippewas gather the rice just as they did when the exploring Franciscan, Father Louis Hennepin, first saw them...
...flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take root and grow for the next moon...
This week Frank Broker was at work for his tribe and the State, giving rice conservation its first trial in Minnesota. At Cass Lake, at the town of Mahnomen, at many another where wild rice is sold to brokers, Chippewas and whites are celebrating the new moon of Mah-No-Men with street fairs and carnivals. Frank Broker meantime kept his eye on the wide, shallow lakes and their waving tops of grain. As in the old days, no Chippewa dared go into the fields until the tribal chieftain announced that the rice was ripe for harvest. This year Chippewas...
...Hollywood producer can be considered highbrow, suave, grey-eyed Walter Wanger is it. Two months ago, when he was working on an ambitious picture called The Long Voyage Home (based on Eugene O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees, and Other Plays of the Sea), Producer Wanger decided to show Hollywood and the world a new high in artistic publicity. With the help of smart Manhattan Gallery Director Reeves Lewenthal, he hired nine of the best U. S. painters he could get to go to Hollywood and paint real high-brow pictures of scenes from the movie (TIME...