Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will stage third annual All-College Weekend, an effort to unite all four College classes an an immense extravaganza. The first dance, attended by 800 couples, had Charlie Spivak and "Orchids in Moonlight." Last year, there was Elliot Lawrence "April in Paris." The theme for the '52 affair has not yet been...
...very thing that gives Pal Joey its distinction-its unabashed look at sordid doings-may always disconcert the people for whom musicomedy means moonlight & roses, or at any rate does not mean blackmail and kept men. O'Hara's account of a small-time heel with his naive boasts and shameless buttering-up, and of the rich, man-eating tigress who loves him enough to keep him in style and stake him to a nightclub, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave her, is vividly hardboiled. For once, musicomedy plays with people rather than paper dolls...
...wintry waning moonlight, the skipper of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles, Captain Robert N. McFarlane, brought his ship about and within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right...
...Jimmy If Jimmy Yancey didn't actually originate boogie-woogie, he might as well have: he was playing it 35 years ago, long before it became big time. In Chicago, jazz lovers could find Jimmy in such southside clubs as the old Bear Trap No. 1 and Moonlight Inn, shrouded in cigarette smoke, his big eyelids drooping, playing the rich kind of boogie blues that made his fellow Negroes proud and sad, his white listeners rapt and respectful...
...courtesy of the road, in truth as in ballad, was subject to broad interpretations on the narrow highways of 17th and 18th Century England. Bold Dick Turpin was one, but only one, of a numerous night-errantry that pranced the moonlight lanes about London, hearts high and pistols level, to cry the hapless traffic to Stand and deliver what it had in pocket. "The finest men in England, physically speaking," said Thomas De Quincey, "the very noblest specimens of man, considered as an animal, were the mounted robbers who cultivated their profession of the great roads...