Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From time immemorial, farmers have planted their root crops in the dark of the moon, though scientists state it is mere superstition. Similarly, though summer schools now flourish, the real tubers of Education-are not set in until the days begin to shorten. Last week marked the world-wide beginning of mankind's annual effort to keep posterity abreast of the times...
...first time in his life he lost a Davis Cup match, for the first time in a blue moon the metaphorical wall toppled over, crushing him. Reaching for one of Lacoste's drives, he had sprained a ligament in his knee. Lacoste took the match...
...MUSIC FROM BEHIND THE MOON-James Branch Cabell-The John Day Co. ($6). Of good publishing there cannot be too much, and the present volume introduces a new house under an old name.* Chief among the tokens that this will be a house of distinction is its announcement that its public offerings will not be swaddled, as is the current fashion, in soft bales of superlative adjectives and the ejaculations of self-advertising pre-reviewers. The election of Mr. Cabell as first to bear the new John Day insignium, in a limited edition (3,000 copies), is evidence that...
Ettarre, whose instrument was her heartstrings and whose home was the waste behind the moon. By dint of a cunning decimal point, Madoc abbreviated her exile in that place, confounding the Norns, as he thought, and establishing his happiness. Then it is shown how, having attained the unattainable, his life lacked savor still, until Ettarre died, a grey wife and mother, leaving Madoc with memories once more elusive and indispensable...
...LISTEN, MOON!-Leonard Cline-Viking Press ($2.) Professor into pirate...