Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witnesses filed past, Senator Harrison sucked softly on a big cigar, rubbed the palms of his long, bony hands together, beamed self-satisfaction through his horn-rimmed glasses. Like an eager runner who beats the starting gun, he had not waited for March 4 and the change of administration to start this parade of economists, financiers and industrialists at the Capitol. He had gotten the Senate to adopt his resolution calling for an investigation of the Depression at once. In his forehandedness he had a double purpose: 1) to stall off radical legislation at this session; 2) to give...
...Great Jasper (RKO) is Jasper Horn (Richard Dix), a swaggering horsecar conductor, burdened with a solemn, shrewish wife and blessed with a gracious though dangerous mistress. The mistress is dangerous because she is the wife of Jasper's employer. When the employer finds out, Jasper goes off to Atlantic City, sets up as an astrologer "for women only," wonders light-heartedly why his wife, who comes to Atlantic City also and independently opens a hot-dog stand, disapproves...
...Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from the sky. Rounding the Horn, the U. S. Scouting force encounters two enemy submarines in the Straits of Magellan, losing two light vessels...
...three brothers only Hugh stayed with the Sea Witch till the end. Will was lost in a storm off the Horn; Roger, after as many farewell performances as an opera star or matador, was finally forced into retirement when a California mob tried to burn him at the stake, crippled him for life. Hugh, once in love with Mary, then with his figurehead, finally with the ship herself, stuck by her even after she was sold into the guano trade, saw the last of her as she sank, burning, into the Pacific. In ten crowded years she had outlived...
...hard-driving city editor of the New York Daily Mirror. Grofé visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate...