Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...IMPERIALISM AND WORLD POLITICS - Parker Thomas Moon-Macmillan...
...buggy-couples wooed each other with "Connaistu le Pays?" sweet lyric by Ambroise Thomas. As old Dobbin ambled along the moon-patched road He would lean his head against her leg-of-mutton sleeve, and She would trill: "Knowest thou the Land?" So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome. People refused to go hear...
...there if you get there. I am certain that one or two explorers have passed over the extreme top of the world, but they have no way to prove it. The only exact way of locating the Pole is by a careful study of the sun, the moon and the stars, in their relationship with each other, but since the moon and stars cannot be seen in summer when explorations can be made, no one has yet found the top of the world. Probably Peary, in 1909 came within 15 miles of the Pole, and that was very close...
...with them the anachronistic April hours, but even such dark events as these must give way to the regiment of women. Lesser problems, such as Metal physical poetry, the Critique of Pure Reason and economic involutions, yield to greater what are her favorite flowers, and will there be a moon...
...from this island, Fernando Noronha, to Port Natal on the easternmost shoulder of South America. There must be enough fuel left, for the glory of Fascismo. Commander de Pinedo circled the island, so that he might know it well, then flew ahead. He had been flying since an African moon flooded Porto Praya in the Cape Verde Islands the midnight before. Off the coast of Brazil the South Atlantic looked angry. The seas became swaying mountains. Fascismo is brave but not foolhardy. If one should have to land now, all glory would be drowned. Commander De Pinedo swung back...