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Word: mooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passos has of recent years taken place in the first rank of American writers with his volumes "Manhattan Transfer" and "Orient Express" as well as his play "The Garbage Man," produced in the spring of 1925 by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the title of "The Moon is a Gong." He first won fame with his great war novel "Three Soldiers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Border Ballad" "O Mister Moon" "Scandalize My Name" Football songs Scott-Maunder arr by H. T. Burleigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS GIVE ANNUAL CONCERT | 3/14/1928 | See Source »

When Anne India had accomplished this much of her purpose, she was privileged one summer night to discover Rex sprawled like an inksplotch on the moon-white ground. Around him were empty bottles. From the shadows came uncouth sounds of snoring, soggy laughter, foolish crying. The villagers were still debauching; but Rex was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: One Man's Meat | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Moon Run Mine, near Crafton, Pa., it occurred to them to find out how much it actually costs to mine one ton of coal. Division Manager Harry M. White of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., close-lipped subordinate, refused to reveal the pertinent figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Senators Afield | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...hence more noticed. Painter Motley has seen the crowd of anxious dark faces at a fortune teller's door, waiting to be told what numbers to bet on in a gambling game. He paints the same crowd, their black skins grey in the light of a jungle moon, capering through the mad tendrils of a mango grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On View | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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