Word: horned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horn (shofar) sounded, Jews around the world ushered in Rosh Hashana, the Hebrew New Year and 5,709 anniversary of the supposed date of the Creation...
...troubadours' verses, it would lay its head in a virgin's lap. A pity, says Ley, to believe that the unicorn is only an ugly rhinoceros, dimly and distantly seen. Perhaps the noble beast had a pleasanter prototype. Modern scientists know, Ley points out, that the horn buds of a calf can be transplanted to the middle of its forehead, where they develop together into a "unicorn" (single horn). The bull with such a horn becomes the leader of the herd. Confident of his strength and position, he can afford to be as gentle as a unicorn...
...ancient Sioux held an oldtimers' reunion at South Dakota's Custer State Park. They were the last of the Indian band which had massacred Lieut. Colonel George A. Custer and 250 troopers of the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Now the buffalo were gone and the white man had taken their Black Hills. Said one irascible old brave: "I wish my people were strong enough to get them back...
...lose that job next week, when Winchell returns from vacation to turn out froth and fripperies of his own, which are more spiteful and more readable. Turn of the Screw. One of the most prolific writers in the business, an expert in the sentimental, tough-guy school of prose, horn-rimmed Jack Lait has inherited Mark Bellinger's crown as king of the hacks. He figures that he has pounded out 1,500 short stories, besides 17 books, eight plays and millions of words of news. "Fiction," he rasps, "is a cinch, automatic. I just set the screw...
...Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With a Horn) Baker came night after night to listen and finally, to Hackett's considerable embarrassment, to write a moony, swoony tribute to his "dignity" in Vogue...