Word: moonlighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late in the night when the torches were out, Guatama awoke in great agony of spirit, "like a man who is told that his house is on fire." He stepped through the vestibule where the nautch girls were lying in darkness striped like a tiger's skin with moonlight. He called for his horses and rode away...
...Pure White Valentine," "Moonlight Star," "James, James, I Am So Far Away," "Gosh Darn, Old Cooty, she's easy...
Brenda had told him at once about kissing Mattocks, in the drive by moonlight. It had given him a twinge but he had understood. Mattocks was a scrawny painter, his fingers jaundiced with cigarettes, his character by egoistic indulgence. Brenda, the sensitive, the humanitarian, had seen he had genius and got one of her "moments". The kiss was to exalt him above drugs and drink to set him to work. It was in no way a betrayal of her husband and children...
BARBER SHOP BALLADS-Edited by Sigmund Spaeth-Simon & Schuster ($2.00). That summer nights may be less hideous and rancid discords less frequently pollute the fine free atmosphere of club porches, tonsorial parlors, moonlight bays, locker rooms and shower baths, Singer Sigmund Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical...
...violently did the vulgar clasp him to its unclean bosom that the cultured upper classes reacted to any mention of his name as they would to a bathroom joke?they saw the point, but would not be caught laughing at it. This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some...