Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to write stories. "This morning after Breakfast," runs a typical note in Innes' boyhood diary of those days, "Arthur went downstairs and began to write a story about a man with three eyes, while I was upstairs enventing a new waterworks that will send rokets over the moon in two minutes . . . then it was a quarter past one, so, I had to go and put on the last potatoes the only six we had in the world...
...lumber Tycoon J. 0. Cole, who was worth something like $7,000,000. Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester (Mass.) Academy, where he got into trouble for writing off-color lyrics; Yale, where he got a B.A. and wrote the Eli football songs Bingo and Bulldog; Harvard, where he took the law dean's advice to switch to music...
...observatories, known locally as "Whipple's Wagon Train," set out from Cambridge in August mounted on surplus government trucks and trailers. Although meteor photographing can be successful only on nights when the moon to darkened, hundreds of photographic plates have been exposed in the last five months...
...visitors from 18 foreign Communist parties strode up to the stage. The first congress since 1922 of the Bulgarian Communist Party was called to order. By week's end, it had mapped out a program to fit the line from a Communist Youth song: "In five years, the moon will look down and will not recognize Bulgaria...
Afterward, Farmer Abrell and his daughters Nancy Ruth and Rachel walked home up the road behind the church. In the light of the full moon, overflowing corncribs stood like sentinels. Rachel slipped her hand into her father's arm. After a few minutes he said, half to himself: "I reckon we've got things to be thankful...