Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last lap of her 19,000-mile journey to Hong Kong...
...Wilson's The Able McLaughlins, Anne Parrish's The Perennial Bachelor, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Julian Green's The Dark Journey, Robert Raynold's Brothers in the West, Paul Horgan's The Fault of Angela, H. L. Davis' Honey in the Horn...
...lacked a player. He was handed an E-flat tuba with the music for Hail Pennsylvania in another key, and transposed it by reading the bass clef as the treble and subtracting the proper number of flats, later working out an explanatory equation. Today Lawyer Scott plays the French horn in the Germantown Symphony Orchestra, owns a 16th Century cello that once belonged to Virtuoso Hans Kindler. His favorite instrument, at the moment, however, is a "probosciphone," a small metal device that fits over the nose and on which he can produce a shrill tune by blowing hard...
...seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson...
...morning Artist Woolf arrived at a Senator's office promptly at 9 a. m. as agreed. The Senator wearing a white suit came in at 9:30, apologized for being late. They joked about the weather, arranged chairs to get the right light. Artist Woolf squinted through his horn-rimmed glasses, went to work while the Senator first smoked, then chewed a cigar. Looking down on them was a large oil painting of the Senator's wife dressed in blue; scattered around the walls were some WPA art works...