Word: moonlite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspension bridge over Chasm Falls in Estes Park, Colo, seven hikers were enjoying the moonlit scene one night in 1933. Suddenly the bridge collapsed. Down into the swirling water 40 ft. below plunged Sisters Adele and Virginia Fowlkes of Denver, one Marion Scilley from Loveland. Last week on behalf of Sister Adele, who received severe leg and spine injuries from the fall, Sister Virginia appeared before the House Claims Committee in Washington, retold her experiences...
...candle in the tower winked out. All was stillness. The friar turned toward the building and stood motionless. Presently a latch clicked, and a woman hurried across the moonlit award and slipped into his arms. They kissed, and then stood for a long time whispering. At intervals, in the pale light, their faces fused. His the eager artist's, burning with creation; her's with a strange detachment--one day to be immortalized in pigment. At last they moved apart and then stole quickly down the garden path to a door in the old wall. The man opened...
...even after he is a widower. In spite of his unexplained departure and long silence, in spite of the series of anonymous letters telling what kind of man he is, she still believes in her beloved Lucius, whom she sends away angry after a lover's quarrel, one moonlit night...
...thick. Mrs. Rufus Cutler Dawes, wife of the president of the Fair, dashed a bottle of liquid air on the gondola, christened it Century of Progress. Colors were piped. Bands blared "Anchors Aweigh." Commander Settle climbed into the gondola, waved, sealed himself in, and was off into the moonlit sky. Searchlights fingered the balloon as it floated up and westward over the Loop. After ten minutes it ceased to rise. Then it began to fall. Down, down it came, skimming the sheds in the Burlington & Quincy Railroad yards at 14th & Canal Streets. Plunk!-it landed on the tracks, barely missing...
...more clear. The budget was to be balanced so that the Government could borrow fresh billions and thereby prime the pump of U. S. business! Credit inflation on a colossal scale loomed ahead. Only if it failed to produce results would the White House lend an ear to the moonlit baying for currency inflation...