Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear about her trip and perhaps persuade her to do a really sharp imitation of some pompous continental dignitary. But before the girlish giggles began, they still remembered to call her "ma'am," for Margaret is the daughter of the King. No matter how seductively the moon may shine as she drives home from a party, there can be no stolen kisses; a Scotland Yard man is always present to see her indoors; often a lady-in-waiting is at the door, too. As one young Briton remarked last week, "I don't think she's much...
GOETHE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: POETRY AND TRUTH FROM MY OWN LIFE (700 pp.)-Translated by R. O. Moon-Public Affairs Press...
Weinbaum began manufacturing his stories during the early '30s. He populated Mars with clever, ostrichlike creatures who could learn snatches of human speech. On Jupiter's moon, lo, he placed giggling "loonies," dimwits with balloon-shaped heads and five-foot necks-not to mention six-inch "slinkers," nasty pests that looked like black rats wearing capes. Science fictioneers credit Weinbaum with two important contributions to their field. Where predecessors had concentrated on gadgetry and ordinary men, he tried to create characters for his non-human aliens, tried to weave his doughpots and other planetary faunas into his plots...
Berliners were happy, but they did not dance in the streets. A few hundred, with garlands of lilac and forsythia, waited quietly under a bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift...
Although Yokum's Moon is just under the horison, the Outing Club plans to stage a "Sadle Hawkins Race" at its First Annual Picnic, Dogpatch Style" from 3 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at Cabot Reservation, two miles north of Waltham...