Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puleston deserves more than his meager fame as the expert who exposed Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. Indignation at the gross ignorance of Congo Africa which he detected in the "Horn-books" caused Dr. Puleston (a prosperous Miami, Florida physician of 20 years residence) to exclaim to friends, "I can't believe this man was ever in the Congo...
Impartial critics have pronounced the Puleston expose of "Horn" able, fully documented, damning. An elderly iconoclast with a penetrating, devil-take-the-prudes outlook, Dr. Puleston does not hesitate to say privately that the horror in which most whites hold "going native" has no scientific basis. As a physician, as one who has "gone," as a practical businessman who lived for many years in a community where every white man had a pitch black Congo woman, Dr. Puleston has stated that such a relation did not appear to harm either health or mentality. Whether it harmed morals he considers...
...motor-horn news from Finland...
...capital of Finland is Helsingfors) recently the Civic Council decreed the total suppression of "horn nuisance," made it a misdemeanor for motorists to give audible signs of their approach...
News of this deed flashed to the capital of Norway, "Beautiful Oslo." fired members of the Royal Automobile Club with a great resolve. In a manifesto soon signed by aristocratic clubbers they proposed "that in every city of the Kingdom of Norway the use of the horn shall be done away with, so that the attention it involves on the part of the automobilist may be redirected to skilful driving...