Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JUMPS OVER THE MOON...
Four year ago this unidentified male began his career of calling Annex dormitories and off-campus houses and either whistling or singing as soon as a student picked up the receiver. He has never been known to speak. "Racing with the Moon" is also one of his favorite tunes...
...jeep trailed behind the general's as we ground in low gear across the rough ground toward a village headquarters less than three miles from the front. Jeep lights flicked on and off as the drivers tried to avoid the deeper holes. An elliptical orange moon popped over the horizon. As we neared the village we passed an artillery position. The dark forms of tanks loomed up against the sky. A 105-mm. gun directly in front suddenly cut loose, its red flash silhouetting for an instant the crouched figures of the gun crew. A pungent smell of gunpowder...
Producer Joe Pasternak was wise enough not to ride this little gag too hard. He has allowed time for enough moon-spoon-swoon songs to please the most ardent Sinatra fans. Kathryn Grayson occasionally joins in, and gives the love lyrics a wholesome quality of antiseptic passion...
Miss Sitwell is not always successful in her new incantatory style. Sometimes her symbols (the Sun, Gold, and Blood for life; the Moon, the Bone, the Cold for death) become monotonous, and sometimes her apocalyptic tone leads her to speechmaking instead of to poetry...