Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June Moon. Ring W. Lardner and George S. Kaufman are the authors of this satire on the noisiest of all "rackets," music publishing. It is as funny as a fusion of such wits would lead one to expect. Mr. Lardner has even gone so far as to write several crack-brained chansons which no one will be able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist...
...because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares at him in still, awful malignance which will amuse anyone who enjoys sadistic spectacles...
...Criminal Code. Martin Flavin is both lawyer and playwright. (Children of the Moon). Perhaps by intention he has shaped his new drama in 13 scenes, for it is the tale of a luckless boy who obeyed the moral laws but was manacled, body and spirit, by the statutes of man. A lonely newcomer in the city, he took a street-girl to a dance hall, where she was insulted and he accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal...
...Frankfort, Germany, after two unsuccessful attempts rose 250 feet in the air, flew six miles to an airplane given momentum not by a motor but by rockets. It was the first rocket-plane flight. Just before he started he had explained: "Before one attempts to fly to the moon, he must jump over the first milestone...
...Hudson, Ohio, one Jim Sorgi was last week working on a 90-foot, home-made rocket in which he expects to fly to the moon...