Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrate the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Concord, Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...
...Smoker will take place at 7.45 o'clock after the dinner is over and the tables have been rearranged. The feature of the evening will be a talk by Captain Irving Johnson of new Bedforde on "Around the Horn on a Square Rigger." His talk will be accompanied by motion pictures taken by the speaker while he was lashed to the mast of his ship during a storm...
...there remained some 1,000 wild animals including 40-odd elephants, twoscore lions & tigers, a pair of rhinoceroses, three giraffes (the fourth broke his neck looking at the scenery between Sarasota and New York), many a seal (the best known of which plays crazily on a horn), and a variegated assortment of porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars...
...Smoker is an informal gathering of first year men at which there will be two speakers, as well as a recital by the Freshman Instrumental Clubs. The speaker of the evening will be Captain Irving Johnson, who will talk on "Around the Horn on a Square-Rigger." Johnson has had a wide experience on the sea, and last year sailed the Shamrock V back to England when she made her record-breaking voyage. It is expected that the other entertainer will be a prestidegitator of no mean repute, although the Chairman of the Smoker committee, R. A. Kidder...
...show. Artists loudly announced that this year they would barter their pictures for food, rent, clothing, or what had you. Haberdashers and dentists were first to strike bargains. On the opening night Artist Baylinson closed with Tailor S. Hindleman-a drawing for a spring suit. Dentist Joseph R. Horn scoured the gallery, tentatively selected 30 pictures, waited for toothaches to develop...