Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon showed a faint tip over the saw-toothed mountains that circle the walled Korean capital, feeble lights went on in Seoul's tiny, one-room houses. White-coated Koreans gathered in little groups on street corners or hurried home to join curious family circles, and there was an unaccustomed murmur in the air. All through the city rustled the same earnest talk and in all the talk there was the one phrase "sin tak"-trusteeship...
...next eight years, following his formulas, Billy wrote more than 300 songs. Forty were hits. At least a dozen (including Without a Song, It's Only a Paper Moon, It Happened in Monterey) are all-time favorites and have brought Billy an "AA" rating with ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)-a distinction he shares with Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, the late George Gershwin and very few others. Billy's songs still bring him about $18,000 a year...
...Battle. What next? The Communists would fight their ban. In a 15th-floor office on Rio's main-stem Avenida Rio Branco, moon-faced Communist Lawyer Sinval Palmeira clutched the multipage appeal he will present to the Supreme Tribunal. He had a diplomatic good word for the Yankees. "The U.S. Constitution," he said, "is helping me to write...
...FULL MOON (276 pp.) P.C. Wodehouse Doubleday...
...usual, is a world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...