Word: horned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time, Groucho's make-up was completely erased, and, after he had donned his horn-rimmed glasses, he looked a strange mixture of the legal and the professorial. One would almost have decided that there wasn't a trace of the typical actor about him until the eye paused doubtfully at the spectacle of pleated trousers...
With the publication of its fall number the Hound and Horn has announced that it is no longer a "Harvard Miscellany" and that now, after three years of development, it will become primarily "a magazine devoted to the arts and letters" with nothing more than a geographical connection with Harvard. In stating that the title has been changed because it misrepresented their intentions, the editors appear to be either pulling the wool over their eyes, or what is more likely, trying to pull it over the eyes of its readers...
...magazine was started by a number of Harvard men who felt that there was a place, unfilled at the time, for such a publication in the University. Three years have been sufficient to show that Harvard as a whole did not really care about the Hound and Horn and at the same time that Harvard could not produce the material that the magazine wanted. The fact that their circulation has been to a large extent outside of Harvard and that practically no unsolicited contributions from students have been sufficiently good to merit publication, combine to prove the truth of this...
...announced last Spring, the Hound and Horn changes its policy somewhat with the October-December issue.. The "Harvard Miscellany" has been dropped from the title because it misrepresented the intention of the editors. The fact that Harvard men have hitherto been the principal contributors and the subjects of many of the articles has not been intentional, but rather a matter of geography and accessibility...
...Hound and Horn is primarily a magazine devoted to the arts and letters; and its main interest is in furthering them., It does not believe that any special dogmas will of themselves create art and letters. Criticism has no meaning and no value until a work of art has first justified itself aesthetically, until it is accepted as a work of art. The Hound and Horn is simply an instrument, a means for cohesion...