Word: horned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford-Cambridge tennis team of seven has arrived for the American Intercollegiatete. M. D. Horn, their ace, forced William M. Johnston, second ranking American who is now playing in England, to his ultimate limit to win at 12-10, 6-4, just before the team's departure for America...
Perhaps your grandfather went West with the covered wagons-or round the Horn to California in '49. Perhaps he didn't. At any rate, if you're in New York in August, here's something you shouldn't miss...
...word jazz, it is stated, is a corruption of the word " razz." Years ago a curious New Orleans " coon orchestra " called itself Razz's Band. It was an aggregation of four pieces, a baritone horn, a cornet, a trombone and an instrument something like a clarionet in shape but made out of the wood of the chinaberry tree. This strange instrument can be used only while the sap is in the wood, and after a few weeks of wear it must be thrown away. It is best made by Southern Negroes. The four musicians of Razz's Band...
...regular "Pops" concert at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall follows: 1.Overture to "La Forza del Destino" Verdi 2. Waltz, "Joyous Vienna" Komzak 3. Meditation from "Thais" Massenet 4. Fantasia, "L'Africaine" Meyerbeer 5. First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Prelude to Act III. "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner (English Horn Solo, Louis Speyer) 7. Phantoms Chaloff 8. Hymn to the Sun, from "Iris" Mascagni 9. Fantasia. "Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti 10. Minuet Bolzoni 11. Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berlioz
Cyrus E. Woods, slender, gray-suited, American Ambassador to Madrid; Colonel George Harvey, tall, horn-spectacled, with square-topped derby; Alanson B. Houghton, clean-shaven, florid and grave, Ambassador to Berlin, came down the gangplank of the George Washington together, back from Europe with the usual Ambassadorial truisms...