Word: horned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seemingly, a car strangely difficult to classify as to make. For the wheels are obviously old Cadillac ones, about 1911 model; the radiator, an even more ancient Speedwell part. Something about the headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals might recognize Cadillac transmission and differential, Cadillac upholstery, a Marvel carburetor from some ancient Buick, an oiling system off a 1910 Fiat, Bosch ignition from a 1908 Rourain, Ford...
...affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope fallible, divorce moral. His friend, Edward Garnett, once came where Ford, in William Morris garb, drank country mead from a bullock's horn. Garnett had a basket of manuscript and Ford assisted in selecting for publication Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad. Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance and Some Do Not are his most recent books. At 16 he successfully published Brown Owl, illustrated by his illustrious grandparent...
Wild cheering ensued. An actor in horn-rimmed glasses and huge trousers, "an American," rushed upon the stage from the audience and hinted that there might be still other ways in which "the honest girls of France" could liquidate the national debt. Mlle. Parisys slapped him in the face, amid pandemonium...
...brewer brewing a brew, a baker baking a cake, a woman having a gown made, a huntsman buying a horn-all these and many another involved in an operation where it is the result that counts, perform one act in common. They sip the brew, taste the batter, try on the gown, wind the horn. So, thought Chicago's school superintendent, William McAndrew, should those supporting public education be permitted to ladle out a sample of the educational pot and try it to see if the contents have taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade...
...will address the meeting are E. C. Johnson '03, H. H. Ripley Jr. '14 W. M. McKim '16, and H. C. MacDuffie '14. Among the other speakers will be D. C. Wilbur and V. E. Parmenter, Graduates of Dartmouth. Other names included in the list are H. E. Horn, import Manager of Lowney's Chocolates, R. B. Capon of Whittemore Bros., H. A. Sweetser, district manager of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and E. O. Hatch of the Carr Fastener...