Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trader Horn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The longest, bitterest journey of Trader Horn ended last week at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. In 1928, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sent two actresses, two actors, Director W. S. Van Dyke and some technicians on an eight-month junket into Africa to shoot the most capricious game of all?an idea. Alfred Aloysius Horn, 75, all-talking hero of Ethelreda Lewis' book, was their theme. Jungle hardships were ameliorated by an ice plant, good food-&-drink, comfortable housing. The real difficulties developed when the film arrived back in California. It would not jell; the script...
...Guelph, Ontario, 61 years ago was horn Arthur William Cutten, Chicago's big stock & commodity bull. Notoriously unschooled in taking profits, he has not been very active since the Crash. Last week he made news by heading back toward his native Canada. He moved one branch of his business from Chicago to Winnipeg, from the Board of Trade to the Winnipeg Grain Exchange...
...Round Table) grants India full "dominion status," the Gandhite Independence Movement can be diverted into that channel. If, however, the name only of "do-minion status" is granted (with its implicit "right of secession" temporarily reserved), there is about an even chance that the Indian National Congress can be horn-into quiescence...
...smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound...
When his second son Harold was killed in an airplane crash two years ago, Inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (dictograph, klaxon horn, acousticon) resolved to make some contribution to safety and efficiency of aircraft. Last week Dr. Hutchison, onetime (1913-17) chief engineer and personal representative of Thomas Alva Edison, brought forth his offering: "Moto-Vita," a device which measures the unburned gases in engine exhaust, enables a pilot to adjust his carburetor accurately in flight for complete combustion of fuel and, consequently, elimination of waste. Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks tried the Moto-Vita on a flight to Memphis, informally reported...