Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tinkle and crash away at drums, gongs, cymbals and triangles is known as the battery, or percussion section. Orchestra players call it the "kitchen." Like pepper in soup, the kitchen's function is usually to supply seasoning for the climaxes of a symphony. Only once in a blue moon, as in the cannon shots of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, does the kitchen get a chance to put on a solo...
...Dale, N. Y., where spiritualism and Townsendism are the chief preoccupations of the inhabitants, a friend of the shades named Ralph G. Pressing announced that he had managed to record at a seance in the Maplewood Hotel a report from Beyond. The spooky commentator was an American Indian named Moon Trail. Dead 300 years, Moon Trail's remarks, as translated by his intermediary, Dr. Horace S. Rambling...
Observations through the Harvard telescopes, which are made available to the Open Night audiences, will be particularly interesting this week and next, since the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and also the Moon, are in good position for observing, the Harvard astronomers pointed...
...hunter's moon swelled to full over Europe last week and Adolf Hitler's manhunting Huns made the most of it. In the fighter-bombers and fast, light bombers (Junkers 88) to which they resorted when their bigger death crates proved too easy meat for the R. A. F.'s fighter defense, they swarmed in over London. They also visited Liverpool, Manchester and other inland towns, to whose inhabitants the bombing of London is only horrid hearsay. Most of them stayed at great altitude because their converted Messerschmitts, with a red line painted on the windscreen...
Back to the U. S. and then back to France in August, Chambrun has a last scene with a LIFE photographer in the Roman amphitheatre under the moon at Nimes. "Two million Germans are occupying our soil today. They are the successors of the Romans, the Arabs, the Vikings, the Spaniards, the Flemish, the British, and many other Germans; but after every other invasion France always succeeds France. She remains herself, like these old stones from Provence which the Romans hauled down from the mountains in their attempt to colonize once for all the land which Caesar captured from Vercingeto...