Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Light of the Silvery Moon (Warner) has a couple of pleasant young people, Doris Day and Gordon MacRae singing a number of pleasant old songs, e.g. If You Were the Only Girl, My Home Town Is a One-Horse Town -but Its Big Enough for Me, and the title tune. Unfortunately, there is also a screenplay. Too vaguely based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories, the picture unreels some foolishly romantic complications in a small Indiana town at the threshold of the Jazz Age. Among those present: a stuffy paterfamilias (Leon Ames), an understanding mother (Rosemary DeCamp), a comic...
...voices of the Ye-ei, the souls of the mountains, who were angered because the miners had disturbed the dwellings of the Talking God and his brother, the Calling God. Last week, after a worried council, the medicine men announced their decision. At the time of the next full moon, the Navajos of the Lukachukai region must hold a Hozhooji (Blessing Way) ceremony with all-night chanting and sand painting "to offer profuse apologies for the act of permitting both Indians and non-Indians to take ore from Mother Earth without permission...
When George White, a moon-faced Californian of 44, confides in a Turkish floozy, a member of the Sicilian Mafia or a Marseille Chinese that he is in the market for dope, his listeners somehow seem to trust him, and lead him right to the big drug suppliers. Using this snare in two decades of prowling the world from Butte to Bahrein, U.S. Narcotics Agent White has got the evidence that has put thousands of peddlers behind bars. His wartime hitch as a lieutenant colonel in the Office of Strategic Services was no less interesting. At one point he stepped...
Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is always rising, Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like...
Fortunately, Christmas Day falls on December 25, so the faculty may accustom their minds to this date, and remember that there should be a vacation. Easter, however, presents many, many problems. It is on the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon, which means Easter Sunday may vary between March 22 and April 25. Astrologists have determined when it will fall until...