Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amiably discussing the song with a reporter, Trombonist Riley told how he had played it on a battered German flügel horn for several months this autumn, how it had become a sensation among metropolitan stay-up-lates, how Rudy Vallee had put it on the air, thus starting its phenomenal popularity. As to the tune's creation, Riley said that one night a girl came into the Onyx Club. "She's pretty high," he recalled. "She says, 'Is that instrument hard to play?' I say, 'Why no. You just sing it. You blow...
...Horizontal Issue." Neutral observers throughout Europe noted mournfully last week that the Ethiopian Question seemed to have become a ''horizontal issue," not so much dividing the nations of Europe as internationally splitting social layers. Broadly speaking, the upper classes, from Scotland to the Golden Horn, and the governments of nations ruled by aristocrats and the bourgeoisie were for peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means...
Associated with Mr. Jacobs was a small, extravagantly mustached press agent named Benjamin Sonnenberg, whose tasks in the past have included making Mrs. Roosevelt a shoe saleswoman on the radio, promoting Trader Horn and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, urging socialites to play billiards. Promoter Jacobs and Press Agent Sonnenberg last week met five bridge players from France when they landed in Manhattan. Having beaten the masters of twelve nations at Brussels last June, the French team imagined that it and the Four Aces, winner of the Spingold, Vanderbilt and a dozen other U. S. trophies, would settle down...
HONEY IN THE HORN-H. L. Davis- Harper...
...full Cabinet (saving Secretary Bern who is in the Philippines), half a dozen Canadian officials and 17 functionaries of the State and other Governmental departments, the President shared his desk with the two principals. Prime Minister King and Secretary Hull. Flashlights coruscated, cameras clicked. Mr. King put on his horn-rimmed spectacles, Mr. Hull, very proud and erect, put his black-ribboned pince-nez on his nose, pens scratched internationally and a new treaty opening new canals of trade and floodgates of political oratory was born...