Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considered safe, the major was photographed on his motorcycle as a sort of Mussolini of Motoring. He decreed barber-striped safety islands and chevron-striped crossing lanes. In order to restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns to be sounded in certain specified emergencies. Jail sentences caused Punch to cartoon a motorists' prison for hornblowers and non-horn-blowers (see cut). Other Punch cartoons depicted the predicament of a motorist with...
Upon being asked what type of music he prefers, Lewis replied that originality of presentation is what he deems all important, and it is for that that he continually strives. "It isn't how much you toot your horn," says Ted, "but it is how you toot it, with what intention--with what delicacy--with what feeling. It is the artistry of your tooting that counts...
...prelude to the reorganization came in the fall of 1933, soon after President Conant took office, when, without any horn-blowing or grinding of machinery, Lowes, who had been Deputy Treasurer since 1929, was made Financial Assistant to the President. Only a few of the higher-ups realized the sweeping changes which this step foretold...
From sundown to sundown the devout turned their talus-wrapped shoulders and bowed heads toward the East in dutiful prayer. Then, as the ram's horn sounded Yom Kippur's end, Yorkville Jews scurried back to their stores for reassurance. On the front windows of more than 50 of them they found scratched in six-inch letters the word...
...Japanese voices are not dubbed into foreign language films in Japan. A native "narrator" shouts in Japanese what the characters are saying, loudly enough to drown out partially the horn which is set at low volume. One day a week in many Tokyo cinema houses the "narrator" is not present, the horn is turned on "loud," and such performances are usually jammed with students trying to learn English...