Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...56th time in 100 years and the 17th time since 1900, the moon's course last week intersected the imaginary line between the earth and the sun at a point close enough to the earth, so that the sun was blotted from the sight of earth-dwellers. The moon's shadow, an oval patch of twilight some 40 miles wide, fell first on the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland, sweeping across Liverpool and Hartlepool to the North Sea, across Scandinavia and Siberia, disappearing over the Aleutian Islands off Alaska...
...moments before-as the moon's age is reckoned-such an event would have caused cowering, ululations and doomsday prophecies among mankind. But last week, instead of scurrying into caves or cellars, mankind made merry and flocked to the totality belt for observation, lay and scientific. In the British Isles there were eclipse houseparties and a national holiday. Scandinavians, accustomed to staying up late at this season of the midnight sun, redoubled their nocturnal festivities to view a sight that will not again be seen by most of Europe until 1961, by England until...
...laws of chance-if such be not contradictious in terms-there must be a few sunny days soon; a few mornings when the fresh spring green of the landscape glistens with sparkling dew-drops; afternoons when the light blue haze hangs over the Yard; nights when a round silver moon peeps over the tree tops through its gossemer veil of clouds, etc etc. In other words, the authority of the CRIMSON'S weather line notwithstanding, it is whispered that optimism reigns among some of the denizens of Plympton Street...
From this observers felt that Peace would be between Mexico and the U. S. for many a moon. The days (TIME, Jan. 24) when "Red" was the Coolidge Administration's adjective for Mexico are over...
...Children do more to determine the length of popularity of a piece of music than does any other factor," said Wendall Hall, composer of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", "Underneath the Mellow Moon". "Land of my Sunset Dreams", and other popular musical selections, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...