Word: moon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every evening Britain recalled Sir Edward Grey's epic lament about the lamps going out all over Europe, never again to be relit in his time. The late August moon rode alone over a darkened city whose street intersections were marked only by thin crosses cut in the black paper masking their traffic lights. Dim blue bulbs picked out busses and subway entrances. Lord Halifax, returning across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through...
...enough to sing with Walter Damrosch (Walter Damrosch). And in the meantime grownup Bing Crosby has had a chance to sing as well as they have ever been sung such Gus Edwards classics as School Days, Sunbonnet Sue, In My Merry Oldsmobile and By the Light of the Silvery Moon, any of which sounds fresh enough to step into the 1939 hit parade...
...Moon Love, from the second movement of Tschaikowsky's 5th Symphony (Paul Whiteman; Decca) and Bach Bay Blues (New Friends of Rhythm; Victor). For swing fans who do not object to classical themes and classicists who do not object to hearing them swung...
...small, smug thoughts and words of Edgar Hopkins (poultry breeder and amateur astronomer), Ex-Insurance Clerk Robert Cedric Sherriff (Journey's End, St. Helena) gives an insect's-eye view of what happened when the moon got out of whack in 1945, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, all but wiped out Europe by tornado, earthquake and flood. The moon's havoc was less than the human havoc which followed. England, now changed from an island to a landlocked meadow on the fringe of Europe, demanded a "British Corridor" to the sea at Gibraltar, but the Corridor blocked...
...whose biggest members are Widlar Food Products (Standard Brands), Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby and Squire Dingee. Biggest pickle States today are Wisconsin and Michigan but the oldest is New York where Dutch burghers packed dills not many years after Henry Hudson debarked from the Half Moon...