Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle Stations. Late on the third day out the wind made up and North Carolina rolled gently through a rising sea that whipped plumes of spindrift over her lean sides and wet down the main deck. The light was fading and the moon hung low in the west when a score of newsmen (including Reserve Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell) leaned against the wind and made their way forward to grandstand seats in the bow. Except for a few lights on her foremast, North Carolina was dark, as she and her destroyer escorts had been every night. But inside...
More cinema stars than had ever turned out for any public occasion showed themselves at Los Angeles' "Moon Festival" for United China Relief, but it was silken-banged Anna May Wong who rode in the parade with Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Supporting cast of more than 100 in the charity festival included Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney. Result: for China's sufferers, roughly...
...Then it whacked off 80% of this for Federal taxes, thus cut net to $5,583,000 v. $6,228,000 in the first half of 1940 (when taxes were computed at 22%). Under existing or proposed tax law, the 1941 write-off looked as if it discounted the moon...
...membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last week's tradition-shattering new member was short, thick, athletic Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, 57, Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, whose moon face, chuckling dark eyes and ragged imperial whiskers make him look like a small-time conjurer of the old school...
...stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed...