Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scurried off to the House of Commons restaurant. To his great indignation, he found that breakfast was not served. To his querulous protestation he was informed that sessions of the House lasted until 8 o'clock in the morning only "once in a blue moon...
...That the sun in the centre of the solar system which the earth moves around, whereas the Bible declares that the earth is the centre around which the sun, moon and stars revolve...
...strained for novelty. There are no footlights. The stage comes graded down to a half moon of front-row tables. These are ostensibly sold to patrons at $11.00 a seat. Ginger ale is served. Off to the left where the boxes were sits a jazz band-not an orchestra. The chorus spends a good deal of time in the audience. Before the show begins and during the intermission, the audience dances on the stage...
Although we have long ceased to believe that the moon has any connection with mental disease, the intent of the benediction is as vital as ever. In present day prose, it might be expressed thus--"You shall be free from illness in body or aberration in mind", and of those the second is the more important to the man himself, and of by far the greater moment to the rest of the world. If to err in thought is an evil, and to escape it a benefit to oneself and others, there is also a duty to keep...
...likely to be about to dissipate. And herein lies one of the great difficulties in thinking aright, that we do not know when we are wrong, or we should not be wrong. The man who knows the right trail does not miss it. We go wrong because the moon has smittea our minds with error...