Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banks of the river, may set up a new record for the freshman cross country course, proving the superiority of runners over the orthodox track method. It is appropriate that in the middle of a Reading Period one should have again the Wordsworthian experience of trying to catch the moon, while it glimmers in the dark ice just ahead. Nature does not need to temper her wind to the shorn lamb, not to those whose shearing is close at hand. For the rugged body is almost as necessary as the stocked brain in approaching travail...
Sirs: Your Waco, Tex., man, who squirts a jet of poison gas at Tom Johnson and Newton D. Baker, two really great men, brings to mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon- But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared...
Some day, graft charges against municipal officials may accumulate above ground, perhaps in connection with airports or chutes for rockets to the moon. For the present, sewers are the conventional source of civic turpitude. Last fortnight's effluvia from the sewers of Queens, a Borough of New York City, were characteristic of a predominant type of big-city government...
...expect to maintain our position indefinitely as an independent manufacturer." And President Edward Stanlaw Jordan of Jordan Motors said: "I don't care to say anything about the situation at this time. I can assure you that nothing will happen in the next few days." At once reports associated Moon Motor Car Co. and Cleveland-Chandler Motors Corp. with the group...
...around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful as the mountains of the moon. On the way he stops to pick up a hoydenish little mountain girl. With her he descends upon the city of the miracle, capturing it, in the Fairbanks manner, unassisted. Treachery and leprosy combine to despoil him of his victory. But on his side there are the mountain girl, the girl...