Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...
Married. Frances Rose Shore (synco-patress "Dinah Shore"), 26; and Signal Corps Corporal George Montgomery, 27, peacetime cinemactor (Bomber's Moon), onetime Montana cowboy; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...painting of an American Indian Chief named Moon Trail by a blind woman who said her hand was guided by Leonardo from the spirit world...
...most of the week it was ideal torpedo weather. The high tropic moon flaunted itself above masses of gauzy clouds. During these nights death passed the ships so close that we could hear 'the beating of his wings.' Some nights we had the advantage of black storms but even in dense rain and squall, weirdly lit by lightning, the Japanese snoopers sought us. One torpedo plane found us and tried to hit our flanks...
...Bank. When George and Helen returned from their Florida honey moon, Lydia was trying to remember that the mortgage was due on the old Walsh home. She sat at her desk by the window and wrote down, "Bank account: $68.03." The Brazilian bonds she had bought for $3,600 were now worth $313.64. She owed two quarters payment on the principal, plus $150 and interest: at least $750. She talked stiffly to the banker, whose bank had recently passed quietly into the hands of a Boston firm, to her new brother-in-law, who had spent more than he could...