Word: moonlit
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...Reporter Miller interviews famous transients ("Slim" Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth et al.), how the silvery grunion come out of the sea with the spring tides to dance on their tails on the beach (TIME, May 9) are among other waterfront marvels. One moonlit night, when he was lying on a solitary beach, a baby sea lion came and nestled beside him for warmth and company. An hour they lay, then Reporter Miller trudged off to work, followed by the baby sea lion's lustrous, wondering eyes...
Everything always happens for the worst, the philosophic storekeeper back home used to wiseacre, but the Frake family are off to Des Moines and the Iowa State Fair, and nothing better could happen than that. Abel Frake guides the rumbling truck along the moonlit country roads. Beside him, his wife Melissa straddles the box of pickles she will exhibit. Their children, Margy and Wayne, are not in such a happy state of mind. Before they left, Margy had quarreled with her boy Harry because he kissed her, Wayne with his girl Eleanor because she would not kiss...
...knows how is more deadly than a short-barreled revolver. Famed U. S. hunting bowmen: Captain Cassius Styles who every year kills mountain lions and cuts yew in Oregon; the late Dr. Saxton Pope who killed African lions, mountain lions, brown and grizzly bears; Arthur H. Young who one moonlit African night buried a shaft feather-deep in the heart of a 600 Ib. lion which died in 20 seconds...
...Most spectacular Manhattan function was given ... by Mr. & Mrs. Franklyn L. Hutton for their daughter Barbara. . . . Guests: 1000. Cost: $100,000. Item: 2,000 cases of champagne. Setting designed by Joseph Urban; a moonlit garden with eucalyptus sprays, silver birches, potted roses, a gauze canopy speckled with stars." (TIME...
...this be true, I feel sure that Mr. Urban's stars glistened on eucalyptical roses whilst potted canopied moonlit sprays birched on every garden of gauze...