Word: horned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...synagogue the rabbi stands before his people like a Semitic tribal chief. Sunset falls. The rabbi picks up a yellowed ram's horn and tongues it into the cadences of the TEKIAH. It is the call to Jews, their reminder that God created the world out of a void and howling darkness 5,689 years ago. Rosh Hashonah, the New Year, opens; the Book of Life is closed upon the passed year...
...coming and going were thus described by sardonic Reporter Edwin C. Hill in the sedate and newsy Evening Sun: "Having arranged for the movie men and the talkie-movie men and the common or garden camera men and some 15 reporters to crowd, without the aid of a shoe horn, into the reception room of her Hotel McAlpin-suite just before noon today, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, the only lady in the history of America who ever walked across the Mohave Desert in an evening frock and French heel shoes, had her very, very golden hair meticulously marcelled, dressed herself...
...seized in France and brought home to account for concealing from the Government his profits in Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's Continental Trading Co. five years ago (TIME, June 4), was still in France last week. He was moving in Paris "disguised"' in slouch hat and horn spectacles. He was, said newsgatherers, dodging newsgatherers, not Government officials. He did not fear extradition, they said, because he could not be extradited unless a French court said so, and a French court was not likely to say so because falsifying an income tax blank is not considered perjury in France...
Author Galsworthy was born in 1867, of oldest and best Devonshire stock. He qualified for the law, but was sufficiently well off to be bored with it and travel. On a voyage between Adelaide and Cape Horn he became fast friends with Joseph Conrad, sailor. Thereupon he took to writing. Besides the volumes of the Forsyte saga, which total with the swan song 2,000 pages, he has done numerous other novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn...
...conclaves. Steelmen, druggists, Zionists and Rotarians, when they hold such sessions, are prone to be strident in praise of themselves, their ideals, the progress they have made and their importance to the well-being of the world at large. Not so advertising men. Since their business is that of horn-blowing and drumbeating, they prefer not to roll their own. R. H. Grant, vice president of Chevrolet Motor Car Co., accused them of doing so, asserting that "the advertising man" too often annoys the world by the share he claims in the success of various businesses. This incrimination was received...