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Word: mooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Listen, Moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...this blassing things can be seeded, awoked, growed up in the heart of man in every way but with robbery or murder for robbery. . . "Do not violate the law of Nature if you do not want to be miserable. I remember : it was a night without a moon but stary. I sit alone in the darkness, I was sorry, very sorry. With the face in my hands I began to look at the stars. I feel that my soul wants to go away from my body, and I have to make an effort to keep it in my chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Italians | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...intensity dissipated by other interests. Others said: "Never think it. Will Tilden is a man of 43; his follies are over, even if he does eat flapjacks at Hollywood now and then. Tennis is his game, his life. He'll not be 'through' for many a moon." Wills-Browne. The fresh-healed threat in Helen Wills' right side-her appendix scar-softened last week and put her adulators at their ease. Her match in the final of the East Hampton invitation tournament against nut-brown Mary Browne was the first test of her condition since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...promise of bees and a deathless summer. Often he would paint two or three pictures on the same canvas; starting to correct a defect in a pastoral scene, a new idea would seize him, he would change cows into rocks, grass into whirling waves, and a chip of moon became a mad sun leering like an eyeball in the forehead of a vast, demented skyscape. Nothing made him so angry as praise of pictures he considered poor. Once a financier stopped with ponderous approbation before the worst canvas in his studio. "Marvelous, Mr. Innes. The most perfect thing you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Inness | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...Inness put his foot through it. Officials from a museum admired a summer evening. Inness smeared his thumb in yellow, pushed it across the moon. "Stay there," he said, "until I make you white. . . ." He painted a few draped figures. Nudes, with the controlling necessity for form, were a tax upon his patience. They were also a tax upon his knowledge for he had never learned the grammar of art; he composed with genius, but his drawing would not parse. He was a master of tone. His pigment, always transparent, was thinned with a vehicle-Siccatif de Haarlem or Siccatif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Inness | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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