Word: horned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assuming that the lady is right, the matter presents its curious aspects. Perspicacious gentlemen within these borders have long aimed their darts at the Mrs. Grundy they claim to be masquerading behind Uncle Sam's chin-whiskers and new horn-rimmed glasses. After reading the editorial page of Judge one wonders how it ever manages to appear without being suppressed; after glancing at Mr. Mencken's polemics, one feels that the author faces martyrdom every time he sits down to his typewriter. Now the Mexican lady accuses this land of being the home not of liberty, but of license...
...rascally was the wink which accompanied this statement that for minutes thereafter eager camera men cried: "Wink that eye again, Trader Horn! . . . Hold that wink, Trader! . . . You're not winking, Trader Horn...
...Trader Horn. Shameful was the exploitation last week, in Manhattan, of a white-haired and quavering old man of 75 whose name is Smith but who has become famous as Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. His arrival from Johannesburg, South Africa, via London, was made the occasion for a humorous publicity campaign by the Publishers of Trader Horn, a biography of Afric blood and thunder which the old man is said to have "dictated" (TIME, June 27). Throughout the week, Mr. Smith wandered like a puzzled Rip Van Winkle through a series of functions at which he, in contrast to most...
...enterprising South African novelist to whom Mr. Smith "dictated" Trader Horn is a Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis. How large a share of the best-selling royalties goes to her was guessed, last week, from the fact that Mr. Smith reached Manhattan traveling second class on the Olympic and put up at the modest Fifth Avenue Hotel...
dined formally at the Englewood, N. J., home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...