Word: moonlit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage, solemnized in the midst of preparations for Jennifer's new European-made film, Gone to Earth, was scripted by Selznick himself. After some rumors that the wedding had been performed at sea, the couple foxed reporters by slipping off to Genoa's city hall. Fadeout: a moonlit honeymoon on the French Riviera aboard the Manona, a 33-ton chartered yacht...
...immigrant student in one of Schoolmarm Mayo's naturalization classes, he gets off an excellent range of muddled European accents. Brightest piece of invention: a bit of hot-weather Americana, in which the sound track picks up the nasal lovemaking of a Brooklyn couple in the moonlit shadows of Jones Beach...
...plane had barely cleared San Juan Bay when the right engine, pounding for altitude, sputtered and conked out. There was no chance to get back to the field; Pilot Cockrill made the best of his only choice. He set the plane down on its belly into the mottled, moonlit sea, a mile from shore, 400 yards from a small island. The lights went out. In the black horror of the cabin many of the Puerto Ricans, chained to their seats by terror, just prayed and waited...
Midnight Mass. As night fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy...
Sunny Florida? Moonlit nights? You name it and Cambridge hasn't got it. According to an impartial survey taken last night at Harry's Arcade Spa and George's, the only thing departing students will miss are the pinball machines. Several states ban them...