Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this summer, Warwick M. Tompkins, Skipper of the schooner, intends to materialize an ambition which he has cherished over since he first tied a bowline, and follow the old clipper ship track to San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Details of the proposed Horn passage were spun last evening by the Skipper aboard his ship in the lower Charles River Basin...
...Convention sets up one of the world's sternest, smartest and most thoroughgoing sets of game laws. It forbids hunting any game with bush fires, poison, dazzling lights, nets, pits, snares, set guns, bothering it with automobiles or airplanes, practically embargoes elephant and rhinoceros horn. Furthermore it patches all Africa with game reserves in which hunting will be wholly or partially prohibited. Besides the 21 beasts, birds and plants absolutely protected everywhere, the Convention listed another 22 that may be hunted only with special licenses that will be nearly impossible to get from local governments. These licenses will limit...
Reporters see this little man in horn spectacles waddle through the great iron gates of the Quai d'Orsay and up to the Premier's state apartments several times each week. Although known principally today as Paris' No. 1 Astrologer, M. Privat has behind him many years of working journalism. He is the author of a fat stack of works comprising his investigations of celebrated judicial cases, exotic crimes and the lives of statesmen he knew as a reporter. The incredible report which much of Paris now avidly believes is that Astrologer Privat assists Premier Laval from...
...victim, also an lowan, was Atlantic Northern, with 17 miles of track. Only farmer-owned railroad in the country, it was built in 1907, thrifty Danes of Elk Horn and Kimballton, Iowa putting up $350,000. Then came the truck which hauled cattle for less money, convinced farmers that even a farm-owned road was not worth keeping. Atlantic Northern had no bonds. Its property was appraised at $117,000. Its farmer-directorate will sell to anyone for 15% of that...
...newspaper office in Manchester, chucked his job after six years to go to the East, traveled 50,000 miles in five years. One of these years he spent quietly, observantly in Japan. Stranded in San Francisco, he shipped aboard a windjammer, worked his 20,000-mile passage around Cape Horn to Liverpool. The World War took him as a private, left him a gassed officer. After the Armistice he went back to journalism. Last Christmas he left Fleet Street for good, went to the country to write more books...