Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simon William Straus, distinguished Manhattan banker, lay ill in his room at the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue, complained of the din of passing traffic. Policemen came to abate noise in the neighborhood of the Ambassador, arrested one Robert Heller, architect, for tooting his horn...
...Horn, head of the expedition, took the bodies and paraphernalia aboard the Brattvaag (which is not due in Tromso, Norway until Sept. 10), gave the news to the master of a homeward-bound sealer, who reported the momentous find at Tromso last week...
...September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east, but no trace was found until Horn's fortuitous discovery...
Abelardo Pacheco, editor of Voz del Pueblo, small but vociferous Nationalist (antiGovernment) Havana weekly, has lately been shocking conservative Cubans by boldly printing what others dare only think about Cuba's horn-spectacled President General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common...
...President Hoover was 56 last week. Boy Scouts gave him, as their honorary president, a carved buffalo horn. At camp he had an angel-food cake with 56 candles. Dr. Joel T. Boone, White House physician, said the President was in "fine shape." Since inaugural the President's hair above the temples has turned white...