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Word: moonlight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henderson '28 and R. M. Whitemore '30 will give piano selections, followed by two numbers by the Mandolin Club. The Gold Coast Orchestra playing two popular pieces. "Moonlight on the Ganges" and "Climbing up the Ladder of Love," and as a more serious conclusion Meditation from "Thais" arranged by John W. Green '28, should provide a high light in the evening's program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS TO GIVE UNION CONCERT | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

...shark-infested" as newspapers said. Medal or no, Mr. Havemeyer, who denied he was a hero, was content. He had had "one last swim." Only at night do sharks frequent Nassau harbor. And when they do come in from the ocean, they are sand sharks; scavengers, not killers. On moonlight nights they may be seen and heard, huge but probably harmless, lurking and feeding near the piles of the town slaughterhouse. Once there was a monster that Nassau called "The Harbor Master." At the buoy where Mr. Havemeyer dived, "shark hunts" are sometimes held. When the tide is ebbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Swim | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Thus spake "The Cambridge Chronicle" concerning modern youth at a time, to use its own words, when "hip pockets for lapdogs are the latest innovations in ladies' dresses" and there were to be "no more strolls by moonlight in the Court House yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Curled Darlings of the Nation" Caught in Act of Flagrant Cruelty--1877 "Chronicle" Deplores Loose Harvard Morals | 2/2/1927 | See Source »

...cigaret advertising ought to be prepared to appeal to the woman smoker. Manufacturers, fearing that such an act would precipitate a rabid anti-cigaret crusade, have not yet published advertising with pictures of a woman smoking. The nearest approach was the Chesterfield advertisement, wherein a charming damsel on a moonlight night asks her escort to: "Blow some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Undoing Begun | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...grey square, he would crane his head up at the rain-spouts, which old artisans had carved in the appearance of fantastic beasts. They were gargoyles, that seemed to droop their eyes in mischievous lure, in vague invitation to Student Mowrey. He pictured the old church standing silent in moonlight, and the gargoyles coming down from their towers for a rowdy riot of dance and clatter. This was material for a symphony, Student Mowrey, cold, sober, realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wreath | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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