Word: moonlighting
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...rode in from long distances on fine horses, their saddles decorated in the most colorful of leathers, but these otherwise well-dressed horsemen rode in their stirrups bare-footed. The traditional square dances, queens, representing the two orders of society, football games, and sweetly melodious marimba concerts in the moonlight were all features of the ceremonies. Particularly impressive, though, were the bull-riding contests, held in a special plaza and attended by a large audience, which in breathless excitement, watched the infuriated bulls buck their riders, who stuck tenaciously to the smooth saddles and used spurs vigorously without a thought...
These are tales of the Potato Face Blind Man, who likes to spin yarns to little girls about moonlight, spiders, rats, elephants; of Yonder the Yinder, "a long spike of a boy with a burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the man with long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers...
...planet is probably larger than the Earth and smaller than Neptune, and can be seen only with the most powerful telescopes now in existence. It has been estimated that the sun's light at this farthest planet can hardly exceed that of moonlight, and under such a low temperature the nitrogen that might be in the air would be solid and the oxygen, if not solid, at least a dense liquid...
...University publications some space is given over to pictures of the University plant "Memorial Hall by Moonlight", "Massachusetts Hall, Oldest University Building", etc.--but nowhere can the student find similar aids to the recognition of distinguished (and other) faculty members...
Madonna of Avenue A (Warner). A Bootlegger who sings nicely in the moonlight, accompanying himself on the guitar, meets a lonely girl from a private school, teaches her how to drink. Ousted from school, the girl visits Manhattan to find the Park Avenue home her mother has spoken of so often. It is a dull, wandering fiction, hardly made bearable by the good looks of Dolores (Mrs. John Barrymore) Costello. Most expected shot: the moment when the girl and her mother meet in a bar where the mother, who had lied about her high estate, has been swigging with sailors...