Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peak of the market his paper profits were more than $100,000,000 but Doc Crawford continued to lunch at a Horn & Hardart Automat...
...jail and Woodrow Wilson sails for the Peace Conference. Henry Cabot Lodge plots destruction for the League of Nations. Three years later, a dying ex-President grins gauntly from the front door of his Washington home. Warren Gamaliel Harding, onetime bandsman of Marion, Ohio, campaigning with a French horn, shakes hands with lodge brothers in pretentious uniforms. The white sheets and the fiery crosses of the Ku Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy...
...sandbar off Cat Island, in the Bahamas, and Skipper Joan went back to Manhattan to raise $300. With $1,000 and Count Ilya Tolstoy as a deckhand, undaunted Adventuress Lowell set off again. Said she: "Hell, yes, we're going on-rHit on around Cape Horn...
...tradition the true London Cockney was "horn within sound of Bow bells" ringing from the tower of St. Mary-le-Bow Church in Cheapside. The church's name came from the "bows" (arches) on which its first building was raised above London's swamps. In the 19th Century...
Last week the case was tried by Municipal Court Justice Samuel Ecker and an all-white jury. Counsel for Horn & Hardart was Nicholas Pecora. brother of Investigator Ferdinand Pecora. His argument was that the automat had been shorthanded, and that even a Horn & Hardart executive had had to wait one hour before being served that night. Unimpressed, the jury awarded a verdict to Negro Tobias. Judge Ecker ordered Horn & Hardart...