Word: moonstruck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with their feet two generations planted were artificially mixed with sunkist visitors and moonstruck social freaks...
Green Cheese. If the political potency of pension promises is the result of lunacy, then California is not alone in being moonstruck. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits Pappy") O'Daniel demonstrated the stump value of old age pensions in winning the Democratic nomination (virtual election) for Governor of Texas. Colorado is going gently broke because its promisers tried to give the oldsters too much ($45 a month). Last week Franklin Roosevelt, the smartest politician in the big U. S., recommended that the Social Security Act should be revised to extend its benefits to another...
Beyond the fact that they were contemporaries, casual friends, great draughtsmen and constant battlers for the recognition of U. S. Art, Artists Davies and Bellows had little in common. Supersensitive, romantic Arthur Davies, painter of moonstruck nudes in mystic landscapes, was so shy that he spent most of his life hiding behind a bushy mustache and the tallest and tightest stiff collar haberdashers could furnish. He would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting...
Bills. There is nothing to prevent a Congressman from introducing a bill proposing that the U. S. annex the other side of the moon. It goes into the Record for the benefit of the homefolks, if they are moonstruck. Largely on this basis, Pennsylvania's Kelly proposed that RFC loan up to 50% of the property value of any business to its owners. California's Hoeppel wanted a $10,000,000,000 appropriation for "county loan agencies." More realistically, Minority Leader Bertrand Snell demanded restoration of the 15% pay cut in Federal salaries. And an echo of Hoover...
...handyman in the home of his wife's rich aunt (Miss Crews). This lady, unaware of his identity, takes a strong fancy to her new employe. The situation is considerably complicated when Farrar's wife goes to visit her aunt. Playwright Kummer has provided a suitably moonstruck conclusion for her ingratiating trifle...