Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rendering "The Moon Goes Drifting" by Homer Grunn and "Nocturne" by Pearl G. Curran, M. Marcoux sang with a lyrical power which is at once his peculiar beauty and forte. The quality of simplicity was unmarred by sentimentality and the full purity of voice awakened keen appreciative pleasure...
...saintly tones of Isaiah Poodle but in the stately rhythms of a purient pekinese. She told them of pleasures they had never known, would never know, of the palaces and sanquti the glitter and garnish of decent diminution, and they hung about her and listened until the moon was high above Charmington and the lights in the passing ten o'clock express made a serpentine suggestion of reality in the passing below the cemetery. And then, refreshed, they went home to dream of pastures pekinese and anti-poodle, pastures fairer than Charmington and much more honest. And they remembered...
...first scene of the play there is a shipwreck. The stage in complete darkness, a shrieking wind carries terror to reader or audience; the lights of a pitching steamer appear and on the instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine on the face of Don Juan* as he leaps overboard to swim ashore. There is dialog in the scene also, but it is negligible. A triumph of stagecraft has been achieved with a few lights and a howling siren. A poet...
...accomplished statesmen met as they strolled about the great Spring Fair at Lyons last week. One was the bland and moon-faced M. Christian G. Rakovsky, Soviet Ambassador to France. The other was the vital, curly-haired Mayor of Lyons, M. Edouard Herriot, President of the Chamber of Deputies, former Premier, and still leader of the most potent political bloc in France, Le Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties...
...Moon Is a Gong. John Dos Passos wrote this. As usual, he was annoyed at the time-annoyed because no matter how high a steeple you climb you never can strike the moon like a gong. Mr. Dos Passos' hero was not able to climb above convention either. The play is loud, violent, incoherent, with a character called "Third Young Man with a Cold-Cream Face...