Word: moonlighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year, when, after the Harvard supporters had listened patiently to songs for old Nassau, my boys, and were aching for a chance to show their contempt for the whole proceedings by singing of the things they were going to do to old Eli the Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash...
...attainment of a goal long in view, the consummation of an event devoutly wished for, is likely to assume the proportions of tragedy in the life of the individual. Gibbon sat down on a moonlight night after completing his labors of forty years on the Decline and Fall and philosophized on the vanity of human achievement. It is the feeling which comes to the athlete after the objective game, to the ordinary man after the last final examination, and to the Senior in the ultimate anti-climax,--Commencement Week. Viewed as ends in themselves such accomplishments may well...
...nights when ivory moonlight showed...
...pale as a sheet in the moonlight" Death came up the golden street on his fastest horse with noiseless hoofs...
There follow in rapid succession the Vale of Tempe, the summit of Parnassus, scaling the Acropolis at midnight, wooing the Maidens of the Porch by Attic moonlight, swimming the Hellespont, climbing Stromboli and Vesuvius, trying to swim from whirling Charybdis to rocky Scylla, singing "Funiculi, Funicula" in the Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing...