Word: horned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attribute my recent elevation on the force to persistent attention to duty and in no small part to taking no back talk from motorists. I stand up here and scowl at 'em and the best of 'em go by in silence." Just then he became aware of violent horn tooting, and blowing his whistle released the jam which had developed during the conversation. Amid stately sweeps of the hand the cars sped past leaving the isolated bluecoat marooned on his roost...
...conviction shattered then, perhaps -her belief in Mr. Baldwin as an agent of the Higher Power? She paled. Then Mr. Baldwin took his pipe out of his mouth, nodded to his chauffeur. The starter buzzed, the engine roared. At a blast from the limousine's powerful siren horn the crowd wavered. "Come on! Down them!!" shouted some voices; but the limousine broke through as one young miner shouted "Back to your hogs, Baldwin!* You're lucky to get away...
...decades the one essential problem of the American college has been to induce its students to take their college work seriously. These students are not children. They are no younger than men who led the advance through the Argonne and other men who took their ships round the Horn. If they can be made to appreciate the importance of intellectual training they will take it seriously enough. The only way to make young men feel the importance is to accept and act upon the principle that they are partners, and the more important partners, in the educational endeavor. This...
...blow your own horn too much...
During the construction of the cavernous city aqueduct, John and Van Horn's niece, Josephine, are engaged. But she is rescued from the Titanic disaster by smooth Garrit Rantoul, promoter of the aqueduct. She marries Rantoul instead of grim, underground, somewhat sandhoggish John. John, just promoted, quits engineering and goes on a star-spangled "bust," for three days rampaging the length, width and depth of the island labyrinth he had thought to help reconstruct...