Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swollen orange moon, hanging low in the sky like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...
...police were hitting at everything in sight, charging in a mad swirl under the inadequate light of the moon and the pallid electric lamps. Groans and shouts rang in my ears. I managed to hide in a side street. Demonstrators wrenched up the iron rails around the tree where I had been standing and used them as swords or clubs; others managed to tear up the paving stones from the curb, and hurled them at the police, often missing and striking their own comrades...
...What the Moon Saw. Shortly before midnight, calm had returned to the Arch of Triumph. The moon shone down dully on the litter of broken bottles, rocks, clubs and park railings strewn over the road. Little pools of blood and dirt had collected, here & there, in the gutters. Walking home down the Champs Elysées, where nightclubs were open and operating as usual, I heard a familiar voice near me: "Chauds, les Marrons, chauds!" It was Anatole, back in business. The little men of Paris were carrying on. All over France, the little men, who detest and fear...
...Trip to the Planets and Stars" will be the topic of a lecture by Charles Federer Jr., editor of Sky and Telescope, on Thursday, November 20; while Horace Taylor, past president of the Bond Astronomical Club, which is sponsoring the talks, will discuss "All Illustrated, Story of the Moon," on Friday, November...
...Medical Department provided the news at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon--the first solidly encouraging medical reports to issue from the Dillon headquarters in many a moon...