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Word: mooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conditions in his becoming human--one providing that he never enter any church of God and the other threatening to make him a witch again if Barbara Allen isn't faithful for a full year--make his sorrow, Barbara's death, and the story of "Dark of the Moon." Throughout this story, at the wedding, in the woods when the witch-girls display excellent reasons for the boy's return to the moon-and-eagle life, in the Allen cabin, and above all at the revival in the church when Barbara is accused of marrying a witch, through every scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...Buffalo, the sensation-of-the-week was one Edward O'Dea, who toured downtown gin mills after having publicly taken a poke at U.S. Senator Jim Mead. Fort Worth had something to goggle about, too. Publisher Amon Carter. Fort Worth's native sun, moon and stars who embarrasses even Texans by his Texasity. had reserved two whole floors of the Blackstone Hotel for guests at his daughter's wedding. In Atlanta, the Tulip Show made wonderful conversation: it had been necessary to import 45,000 plants because local flowers had bloomed two weeks too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Shakedown I | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...paintings were good enough to make most visitors forget Somerset Maugham's smoothly dramatic Moon and Sixpence-which borrowed many of the circumstances, but few of the inner realities, of Gauguin's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seen through Sunglasses | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...three months have given concerts to strikers in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Schenectady. Its board of directors includes the No. 1 collector of American folk music, 31-year-old Alan Lomax (TIME, Nov. 26). Said he: "We're going to put more into our songs than June moon croon spoon swoon, and sing Bilbo out of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hootenanny | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Climate of War | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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