Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the malcontent Democrats are saying is: This session of Congress from a political standpoint has been a total loss. Where, where under sun or moon or in the dark of night is Democratic leadership? Where is the opposition...
...Federal and State prohibition forces evince, in swamps, in mountain fastnesses, in dense thickets, on rivers, in attics, in basements, in garages, in warehouses, in office buildings, even in caves and other undergound retreats. In other words, moonshine is almost as ubiquitous as the radiance of the moon itself...
...Thereafter, whenever the moon was not full, Mr. Brown almost daily caused his chef to heat large panfuls of gold and silver coins as hot as possible on the galley stove. The beggars of Brightlingsea, anxious to humor his whims, appeared in rowboats and caught the coins in their bare hands as Mr. Brown hurled the bits of gold and silver overboard with a shovel. If the beggars attempted to use gloves, he hurled boiling water upon them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in �100 notes...
...characters is George Washington, you may surmise than the scene is not laid in Victorian England, nor on the conventional. Island Far Away, where a group of modern Harvard undergraduates and Back Bay debutantes in the past have sung topical songs and fallen in love under a nitrogen moon...
...is?a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published once in a crooked moon. It is the kind of book that travels from hand to hand more rapidly than news of any other kind, for there is a magic upon...