Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans who could be called an "authority" on existentialism, Professor Earle is visiting from Northwestern during the fall term, after which he will have a year's leave of absence to write a book. A medium-sized, broad-shouldered Midwesterner, he is characterized by horn-rimmed glasses and an intense gaze and manner...
Dawn's Early Blight. In Naples, a watchmaker applied for a patent on an alarm clock for stubborn sleepers which, if not turned off after the first normal rings, starts an electronic tape featuring the continuous honking of a car horn, the prolonged barking of a dog, several pistol shots followed by a cannon's boom...
...little except the Klondike. Preachers, policemen, doctors quit their callings and headed for the bitter North. The mayor of Seattle, in San Francisco for a convention, "did not bother to return home, but wired his resignation." From New York came 500 women, mostly widows, by steamer around the Horn. After a fearsome journey, they reached Seattle broke, their hopes of marrying sourdough millionaires shattered...
...might suspect, Mace is a tall, trim, and solidly built man, who wears black horn-rimmed glasses for reading, smokes mentholated cigarettes, and works at his desk in shirtsleeves that are clean enough to smell white. His disposition is unbearable until he has had his first cup of coffee in the morning, but Mace explains this as "an old Norwegian habit...
...modest, Stephens at 50 still looks much like a college sophomore with his horn-rimmed glasses and windswept shock of blond hair. In recent years he has left the family sailing much to gregarious Rod. instead spends his spare time painting or studying French and philosophy. Explains his wife: "He likes yachting people, understand. He just thinks there are other serious things in his life...