Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Whistling Vipers, a Madagascar moon-faced monkey, a Mandalayan singing lizard-members of an immigrating menagerie-arrived in Manhattan on the Hamburg, as did Novelist Sinclair Lewis and his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Thompson, famed newspaper correspondent...
...Lewis Coath, its former president and the arch-enemy of William McAndrew, unexpectedly argued against the new textbooks. Soon voted down, he later confessed that his resistance had been due to a desire to "hang up a record." Out of Chicago schools were ruled: Modern History, by Hayes and Moon; Founders of Freedom in America, by Corson and Cornish; History of the American People, by Mc-Laughlin; Story of Our Country, by West & West; School History of the United States, by Hart; and An American History, by Muzzey. One other chronicle which had been criticized as an influence against childish...
...more recondite reason is possible. Tides, lunar and solar, of course influence ocean currents. When sun and moon act together their pull gives the entire ocean flow a mighty wrench and affects the climate of bordering land...
...started at 10 p. m., as I had determined to use the moon and climb all night. . . . We dispensed with a lantern, Hans helping me admirably, with knee and shoulder, and guiding my metal peg to its foothold with the precision of a chess player moving a pawn. We . . . arrived upon the summit at 7:30 a. m. . . . Then came the long terrors of the grim descent-always worse than the ascent for the legless man ... it was over at last...
...Moon...