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Word: moonlight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lune, but it will be over the copyright owners' dead bodies. Says he: "You've got to give the public something it can hang onto-some real melody that isn't too long, too involved or too deadly. For instance, they want me to try the Moonlight Sonata, but that goes on too long. If anything goes beyond 32 bars it is hard for the public to assimilate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tchaikovsky in the Grove | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...herself is strictly down-to-earth, though. In fact, she probably ranks as the sexiest gal in them thar hills. And that's what makes trouble. For Barbara so out-sexes even the girl witches with whom the witch-boy used to spend his time, riding around in the moonlight on eagles, that he wants to become a human and marry her. Warned by the Conjur Man that being human isn't easy, and enticed by the wiles of the girl witches, he nonetheless insists on becoming a man "with a soul." "You'll be sorry, witch-boy," wail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...back to the seashore resort which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Climate of War | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Smith expanded on the advantages of the Union over the alternative sites such as Mom Hall and the Indoor Athletic Building. "In addition to its striking decor," he said, "there are hopes for opening the rotunda for moonlight dancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFORMAL DANCE, 'GALA REVUE' PLANNED FOR JUBILEE WEEKEND | 3/29/1946 | See Source »

...ivory crucifix obtained by "moonlight requisition" from an Italian church. Sold to a Kansas City antique shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The G.I. Taste | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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