Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burning" is as completely witty, brilliant, and captivating as those who saw it in London claimed. Not only is it true, but Christopher Fry's play is probably more literate than any play that will open for quite a while; of course, Fry's forthcoming "Ring 'Round the Moon" may prove an exception...
Brief excerpt: "The river looked miles and miles across. The moon was so bright I could a counted the drift-logs that went a-slipping along, black and still, hundreds of yards out from shore. Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late ... It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather...
...knife. Jones knew he could not make it back to the Rochester, brought his craft down on the Han River in territory then still held by the Reds. Jones and Whittall took to their rubber life raft and reached an island in the river. As soon as the moon came up, they were rescued-by a helicopter...
After picking up his intermediary, wrote Nagaoka, he drove 20 miles to a spot where two men blindfolded him and led him into a deep pine forest. There the mask was taken off. "The moon was shining bright," reported Nagaoka, "and sitting on a huge rock three feet before me was the man I had come to interview." Not to be fooled, Nagaoka pulled out a photograph of Ito and compared it with the man's face. "Except for the grizzled tired face, the sharp gleaming eyes and the shabby suit," wrote Nagaoka somewhat ambiguously, "the man was undoubtedly...
...Charles, Ill., two of the 30 inmates of Illinois State Training School for Boys who were taken out to see an eclipse of the moon took advantage of the darkness, crawled over a fence and ran away...