Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managing editor of the defunct Southern Review, has written two other novels, neither so good as this, and some first-rate poetry. In all his writing, even at its slickest-and some of this novel is pretty slick-there is a sense of doom and blood on the moon that Warren has gradually shifted into religious terms. Though the title of this book comes from a nursery rhyme, its epigraph comes from a passage in Dante's Purgatorio: "By curse of theirs man is not so lost, that eternal love may not return, so long as hope retaineth aught...
Over Lac Leman the sun set in splendor. Mont Blanc's icy peak changed from red to grey to blue, finally faded into the falling night. The moon rose. From an old-fashioned paddle steamer, 400 UNRRA employes (who had taken time out from their Geneva conference for a boat ride) watched the grandiose spectacle in awed fascination...
...summer season was in full, gay swing last week along the smooth, half-moon beach at swank San Sebastian, official summer playground of Spanish officials and Madrid's diplomatic corps. But while some of Fascist Franco's officials relaxed on the white sand, others renewed their vigilance over the nation's morals...
...fine, down to 198 lbs.; the neuritis was gone; and how was the boss? The President told him how he was (fine) and how things were going (not so good), while the fat man's moon face worked fluidly with sympathy and concern...
...Mild, moon-faced William Goetz, president and production stay of Hollywood's young & healthy International Pictures Corp., was rich with property. Time was when Goetz had had to rent lot space, pick up stars, writers and directors on the run, and share his profits with the industry's entrenched distributors. Now fast-failing Universal Pictures, the sixth largest company in town, had dropped 230 acres of lot space and 31 key domestic distribution offices into International's lap. Included in Universal's assets was the first crack at the more than 1,000 theaters owned...