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Word: mooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibly due to the favorite theatrical trick of sending a different cast to Boston or else the reports were fictitious. At any rate there is nothing to commend the show except an average good musical score containing two really excellent turns, "Your Land, my Land" and "The Same Silver Moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MY MARYLAND" PASSES BY WITH GOOD TUNES | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Perry is President of the Dramatic Club, and has charge of the acting department. During his four years at Harvard, he has acted in every production except "Mr. Paraclete". He has had leading roles in "The Moon is a Cong", "Brown of Harvard", "The Orange Comedy," and "The Taming of the Shrew." Leatherbee has played in "Brown of Harvard", "The Orange Comedy", and "The Taming of the Shrew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PICKS LEADS FOR FALL PLAY | 11/16/1927 | See Source »

...corona, which is the circle of light observed when the sun is completely obscured by the moon, is a subject of controversy, among astronomers, Professors Stetson explained to a CRIMSON representative. The solution of the problem is important because of its relation to solar eruptions, or sun-spots, which are being made the subject of scientific study in connection with seasonal weather prediction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABORATORY CONDUCTS STUDY OF SOLAR CORONA | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

...represents," said Sculptor Epstein, "but if the artist calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements of a bird. The profile suggests perhaps the breast of a bird." "It might also suggest the keel of a boat or the crescent of a new moon," said Presiding Justice Waite. Assistant Attorney General Marcus Higgenbotham said: "A mechanic could have done this thing." Countered Sculptor Epstein: "No ... he could have polished this but he could not have conceived it." Finally, sick of a nagging, abstruse controversy, Justice Waite intelligently decided to delay a decision until testimony from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bird | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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