Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the Christmas magazines at the news-stalls there lay a newcomer, a monthly fiction magazine, with a creamy cover, a big golden moon, a golden skirted lady and gold stars. You stared at this magazine because there, beside the lady's golden skirt, in big red letters, the list of contributors looked so extraordinary. You had heard all the names before, but for a moment you could in no way connect them with a news-stall. It was like running across a bishop in a saloon or seeing your wife about to play quarter- back...
...When the moon completely covers the sun, at the height of the eclipse" he said, "there will still be rays shooting out around the edges of the moon, which are called the corona. The corona has approximately the same total light as that of the full moon. It is made up probably of great tongues of flame which shoot thousands of miles out into space, and are reflected by something in the air, the nature of which has not yet been determined...
...GLENCAIRN?A group title for O'Neill's sea plays, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Moon of the Caribbees and The Long Voyage Home...
Advance notice was given to the public of a total eclipse of the sun impending on the 24th of January next. Prof. Ernest W. Brown of Yale University, a gentleman who has spent many years of his life making exceedingly accurate tables of the moon's behavior so that phases of the moon can be predicted accurately years in advance, has been appointed by the American Astronomical Society as Chairman of a Committee to inform the public concerning the eclipse -a very necessary function because of the proclivity of the press to garble accounts of things scientific. The unusual...
...Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic" was used in its popular, journalistic sense in naming the new section. And a popular, highly successful journalistic departure the new section promised to be. It reminded readers of the "find-the-face" picture puzzles once run by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, expanded, colored up, bigger and better in every...