Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation, chairmanned by Democrat John W. Mc-Cormack of South Boston, precipitated by the anti-Nazi outcries of Democrat Samuel Dickstein of Manhattan. For counsel the committee retained Thomas William Hardwick, onetime (1914-19) Senator, onetime (1921-23) Governor of Georgia. A fat-faced, roly-poly little man in horn-rimmed spectacles, he rustled papers between nicotine-stained fingers, showed none of Ferdinand Pecora's mental agility in driving witnesses into tight corners. Counsel Hardwick had great difficulty pronouncing "swastika," finally compromised on "swat-sicka." For three full days the U. S. Government provided an official soundboard from which...
...saved the day for Annapolis on the football field, spurred the Midshipmen to victory over Army, 6-4. After graduation he entered the engineering division, was in the belly of the U. S. S. Oregon, crowding steam into her old boilers to drive her at destroyer speed around Cape Horn from San Francisco in time for the battle of Santiago. For that deed well done Joseph Reeves was advanced four numbers in rank...
Brazil's Dillinger was somewhat more striking in appearance than his U. S. prototype. He wrore a bright red sombrero, glittering horn-rimmed spectacles and a gold & silver studded cartridge belt that held four rows of cartridges and was too wide for him ever to bend at the waist...
...whaling under the man who saved the industry from extinction. Modern whaling dates back to Christmas Eve, 1904, when Captain Carl Anton Larsen of Sandefjord, Norway, brought the first whale oil of the season into Grytviken, a bleak whaling station on the Island of South Georgia east of Cape Horn. Captain Larsen, already an oldster in the trade, realized that whaling was doomed unless new grounds were discovered. The Arctic, hunted for centuries, was nearing exhaustion. With great difficulty he raised enough capital for an expedition to the Weddell Sea. There he found whales aplenty and within ten years...
Soon after the War the vast waters lying between the South Polar ice barrier, Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope threatened to go the way of the Arctic whaling grounds. Again Captain Larsen set out to find more whales. This time he went through the ice pack into the Ross Sea* where no explorer had been for a decade. Thence he pounded his way into the Bay of Whales where six years later Richard Evelyn Byrd established a base at Little America. Once again Captain Larsen made whaling history, by arriving on a Christmas Eve. Four days later...