Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the most important date of the Christian calendar. It begins the ecclesiastical year, yet is a variable holiday fixed for each year by a complicated equation of epacts, dominical letters and Golden Numbers. It falls on the first Sunday after the Pascal full moon, that is, the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the vernal equinox). Therefore Easter cannot come before March 22 or after April 25. This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited, springtime* surge of joy, light...
...Heard is in Norman Douglas' attractively iconoclastic novel, "South Wind." Now he had a most yielding view of south strange sects as Baptists. Classed them with the natives of M'tezo. Incurable heathen, the M'tezo. They filed their teeth, ate their superfluous female relations, swapped wives every new moon, and never wore a stitch of clothes. But they despised lying. One could not help liking them. But Baptists...
...arrived last week at relative positions such that the tiny one shut off part of the light shed by the enormous one upon a third, a moderate-sized body covered with white, blue and green scum, which spun along hard by the tiny cold body. That is, the moon cast its solar shadow full upon the earth- a total eclipse. It happened that the shadow-an oval patch 80 miles in longitude, about 180 in latitude, traveling side wise from west to east just north of the equator at some 60 miles a minute-moved across a 7,-000-mile...
Fenway--"The Rocking Moon" with Lelyan Tashman, and "Morals for Men" with Agnes Ayres and Conway Tearle...
...Where are you going and what do you wish?" The old moon asked the three...