Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit's fever spread fast. Car dealers in 245 U.S. cities were cranking up hardsell campaigns for April or May. Their slogan: "You Auto Buy Now." Many will stage horn-tooting parades through downtown areas, will serve free coffee to all comers in the showrooms, will trim some prices. (Ford cut prices $15 and $16 on some Fairlane models to bring them in line with Chevrolet prices...
...skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly idealized, it is unquestionably the portrait of an actual person. The present Oni says that at his coronation in 1930 he was decked out in an identical costume. ¶ A 10-in. tall work showing two figures. Though one head is still to be found...
...Martha Gell-horn-Simon & Schuster...
...paneled lecture room at the University of Chicago one day last week, a pink-cheeked, wispy-haired little man mounted the raised platform, pushed his horn-rimmed glasses up on to his forehead and began to speak. He was not comfortable. "I do not feel at ease when I have to speak," said Painter Marc Chagall. "My language...
...after the killing, police found Bobby Franks's naked, beaten body in the Hegewisch swampland south of Chicago. Near it lay a pair-of horn-rimmed glasses, quickly traced through its unusual hinge to Nathan Leopold. Questioned, the supermen broke wide open, fell to shrilly blaming each other for their crime...