Word: horned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prairie lands, conveyed 74 young women along the corduroy boardwalk. Each of the young women was in some suitable disguise which was really almost no disguise at all. On foot, interspersed between the dangerously gaudy floats, more than 1,000 bandsmen walked, each making a noise on flute or horn or big bass drum. The citizens of Atlantic City stared and stared. The waves of the ocean thundered along a smooth beach and a wind made the flags snap. This was the Annual Atlantic City Beauty Pageant...
...basis. Neither Ignace Paderewski nor an organ- grinder (with monkey) annoys the American Federation of Musicians. But the fact that the law makes no distinction between them is distressing, because it harms business. Representatives of the musicians' union point out that "saxophone strugglers, trombone contortionists, bass drummers and French horn oompahs" have been admitted into the U. S. as "artists," thereby flooding the market for musicians and reducing the wage minimum, much as was the case when steel laborers were imported from Europe in former years...
Divorced. Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn, golfer, trans-Mississippi Women's Champion, onetime (1923) Western Women's Champion; from Joseph F. Horn. She charged desertion and nonsupport...
...There are some 20 full-blooded Indians in the (dismounted) cavalry guard assigned to care for the President during his vacation. Among them is Corporal Little Ghost, reputedly a grandson of Sitting Bull, Indian chief whose warriors defeated and killed General Custer at Little Big Horn. From his many Western descendants, Sitting Bull would appear to have been as prolific as the Mayflower was capacious. (I Fishermen everywhere were shocked to learn that President Coolidge, on his first fishing expedition in Squaw Creek, had used worm-bait in catching five trout. Flies, they said, were the only proper trout-bait...
...TRADER HORN, Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn: taken down and edited by Ethelreda Lewis. Foreword by John Galsworthy. The Literary Guild of America, New York. This is a volume of memories of a trader's life in central Africa, reeking with atmosphere. The main figure of the story is a real figure; and the subordinate characters are also real. To avoid publicity of offense surnames have been changed...