Word: moonlite
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...moonlit night in the rolling hill country near Bath, a tall, uniformed figure stopped at a lorry driver's cottage and tapped on the door. A window was raised, a few words were exchanged and presently a woman stepped out with a coat thrown over her nightdress. She walked down the road beside the man in the uniform...
...Negro's story: the woman was no stranger to him, he had been with her twice before and each time had paid her a pound note, he had made a date with her for that moonlit night. According to other testimony, her husband had been in the cottage at the time. A civilian police surgeon who examined the woman found no visible signs that she had put up any fight. The Negro said that he had been without food for 24 hours when he signed a confession...
...exchange of passwords, a new guard was assigned to lead us straight up the rocks beside a waterfall deep into a fissure in the towering limestone crag. Midway up we entered a vast grotto with an underground mountain lake and turned back, panting, to look down upon the majestic moonlit landscape...
...moonlit street in the heel of Italy a British soldier uttered a cry of pain, fell with a stab wound in his back. Angry Tommies beat through the dark village, could not find the assailant. Next day a gang of Italian youths pummeled a tipsy British soldier. Again Tommies rushed to the rescue. Shots rang out, hit some bystanders, dispersed a defiant...
...time buying up vaudeville theaters in which the team might otherwise appear. In real life they had no such trouble. The Norworths sing the new Thank You for the Dance in an empty theater, to an imaginary audience, get the idea for their title hit on a moonlit country buggy ride. In real life Jack Norworth dreamed up Harvest Moon in a Manhattan subway train. Just as fictitiously, Nora tries to save Jack's career by pretending to throw him over, but is last seen with him in triumphant Technicolor, smiling out of a harvest moon in Ziegfeld...