Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. In 1619 a Dutch ship named the Full Moon entered Saldanha Bay, Africa, for water. The old King of the Herreros went to the shore, though he was sick. To the King the Captain offered white man's medicine. All must drink. The King and his bodyguard agreed. Faithfully they drank the prescribed drink. It came in cases labeled HOLLAND GIN. After the warriors were quite senseless, 16 girls and four boys were kidnapped, to be sold as the first slaves at Jamestown, Va. Next morning the Dutchmen were far out and the Herreros could not chase them...
DARK STAR-Lorna Moon-Bobbs Merrill...
...expensive, which, it is expected, will be kept by the Club for several years. The new plane will be flown by members of the Club to Boston from Wichita, Kansas, the home of the manufacturers, early in the fall. Those who will probably make the trip are H. P. Moon '32 and H. H. Timken '31, both experienced pilots...
...Manhattan Bridge, the stranger said: "It's a fine night, isn't it?" Answered James Albrecht, an out-of-a-job printer: "Kind of chilly, don't you think?" "Per-haps," said the stranger, "But just look at that beautiful moon." The next thing the stranger said was "Goodbye, good luck and God bless you." As he said this he was falling through the dark air into the river...
...indulged whenever her family kept her indoors from a thunder storm. Joan hated her, too, partly from jealousy, partly from nerves. But Claire, the girl Alan loved, adored Lynneth, credited her with an "elemental tenderness." And Douglas, the man engaged to marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon. "Looking at Lynneth with her remote and crystal innocence was like seeing one of his moments take form and move through the trees in radiance." But for all her innocence, Lynneth held the household hypnotized, worked a sinister charm over carnal Douglas. One electric day, detailed to keep her indoors...