Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece orchestras played all night for Long Island's gilded youth, now white-wings who spent their lives cleaning the streets of the metropolis, inspectors who fought its diseases, engineers who disposed of its sewage, will live in luxurious vacation and retirement. Cottages will be built for pensioners. Horn & Hardart will set up a cafeteria...
...bare-breasted girl, her face caged with roses, her image multiplied by mirrors. > "The Beach of Gala Salvador" exhibits, against a Dali landscape embellished with exploding giraffes, many a famed surrealist emblem: the erotic white gramophone with a woman's high-heeled foot coming out of the horn; watches flattened out like flabby pancakes; "The Aphrodisiac Vampire," with the head of a tiger and a body studded with pony glasses; "The Ex quisite Corpse," its head and neck a curved umbrella handle, its chest a wooden chest, its thighs made of saucepans, its curved piano legs made of chocolate...
Most people might suppose that the march was dedicated to an army post, or the Post Office department, or perhaps had something to do with a post horn. Actually, it was a theme song (before the days of theme songs), commissioned in 1889 by a newspaper, the twelve-year-old Washington Post.* Washington-born John Sousa, 34, son of a longtime member of the Marine Band, had become its leader. The heavy-bearded bandmaster dashed off the march, had the Band play it on the Smithsonian Institution grounds, where 25,000 people gathered for the presentation of prizes...
Most people know that George Bernard Shaw was once a music critic, writing for London papers under the name Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library...
...leading nominee for Führer & Savior of the U. S., the Army's retired Major General George Van Horn Moseley last week damned Jews, Reds and the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities whose guest he was. Witness Moseley set a record high for testamentary effrontery. His henchman, Charles B. Hudson of Omaha, set a high for panic by snatching away the General's water glass, lest it be poisoned (see cut). Otherwise General Moseley only rehashed and amplified his earlier, alarmistic mouthings (TIME, April 10), implied that the U. S. Army would be quelling "the enemy...