Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feed lot where his 18 purebred Aberdeen Angus and two Holstein cattle were chewing their cuds. "Now let 'er go Dick!" he called to his driver Dick Flohr, who was seated in the President's special Crosley runabout. Driver Flohr touched a button and a horn let out a deep "mooooo." While host and guests laughed, the cattle rushed up to answer the call, which the President's farmers often use at feeding time. Said Ike: "When you want to see some of the herd, you just blow it, and by golly, they come...
Venezuela was a symbolic place for Dominguin's comeback; it was a bad horn wound there three years ago that had led to his retirement. "I've lost the joy of fighting," he explained at the time. A millionaire twice over, he traded the suit of lights for blue jeans and a checkered shirt on his 6,000-acre New Castilian estate, with its 20-room, tower-topped house, marble statue of himself, and an antique bed for a restless bullfighter-16 ft. by 7 ft. Over the gate he posted his new motto: "Do nothing...
Zippo Climbs Back. The horn sold well, and Marx was made a Strauss director. One day the directors discussed whether the company should continue to manufacture and sell in its four retail stores in New York or give up selling. Marx alone urged Strauss to get out of the retail field. Instead of getting rid of the stores, Strauss got rid of Marx...
...Jigger (a clockwork minstrel) were the first mechanical toys mass-manufactured in the U.S. Within four years, Marx had been promoted to manage the company's East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea for a toy. One of Strauss's products was a toy horn that bleated "Mamma, Papa." Marx amplified the sound effects, redesigned the horn to resemble a carnation and brought it out as a paper lapel flower that doubled as a noisemaker at parties...
...surprising Trendex rating victory over Milton Berle, he was the first entertainer to accomplish the feat in all Berle's years on television. Silvers followed his win with a similar victory over Martha Raye. Last week, to prove it was no accident, he beat Uncle Miltie again. Bald, horn-rimmed Phil Silvers, 43, has been near the show-business top for years (as in Broadway's hit musicals, High Button Shoes and Top Banana}, but until his TV Phil Silvers Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS), he had never quite scored a national success. He is still bitter...