Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jokes and jungfrauen-Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals, Earl Carroll's Vanities, Good Boy, The New Moon...
...Moon. The producers of elaborate musical comedies or operettas have now come to the conclusion that what the public wants is no longer "sex," but adventure and romance. No one knows how the producers have been able to detect this curious hunger; but they have not been slow in satisfying it. Hither is the present trend of Ziggy; the Shubert show, White Lilacs, makes a valentine out of a vulgar though exciting episode. In The New Moon, Schwab and Mandel, from the cheers and collegiate stomping of Good News, have turned to New Orleans before the French Revolution...
...Moon. At the time the International Match Co. sprang into being (1923), the Swedish Match Co. announced a curious statistic. It assured the dubious that match boxes, produced in eight months at its factories, placed end to end, would reach from the earth to the moon...
...still more hypnotic state, Ma'm'selle moved dazedly to the cashier's window, cashed the chip for its stamped value of 100,000 francs ($4,000), and tottered out under Deauville's big moon...
...courage and excellent stamina that he has given him permission to stay with the expedition. Two white boys who stowed away were put off ere the ship got out of the harbor because sailors heard them arguing. The black boy goes. The promoters of the first trip to the moon had better examine their rocket carefully if they would make sure that no adventurous Negro is aboard...