Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearing Glasses. For clients who are vainer about their hearing than their eyesight, Otarion, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has designed a hearing aid housed in standard, horn-rimmed glasses. The amplifier fits behind the ear and since no cord or attachment is needed, the glasses can be put on and off like an ordinary pair. Price...
...dock at Old Bailey last week. Captain Peter Baker, M.P., war hero, audacious financier and poet, heard himself described by a psychiatrist as suffering from "hypomania," a ?5 word for big-shot complex. He pleaded guilty to six of seven charges against him, then, squinting through his horn-rimmed glasses, stood at soldierly attention as he was sentenced to seven years in prison...
Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs became Radcliffe's second president in 1903, and Ada Comstock Notestein succeeded him in 1923. The college was growing, but Harvard scarcely noted that it was populated by anything more than a race of flat-chested creatures in horn-rimmed spectacles. By the time that Historian Wilbur Jordan took over in 1943, the old jokes were still alive ("Is that a Radcliffe girl, or did a horse step on her face...
...announcer assured the nation, "is the night all America has been waiting for!" A covey of actors, including Groucho Marx, Ed Wynn, Danny Thomas and Eddie Mayehoff, were asked to coo and croon over convertibles, station wagons and sedans. In between plugs there were occasional songs by Betty Grable, horn tootings by Harry James and jokes by Ed Wynn. Groucho had nothing noncommercial to do except hide in the back seat of a roadster-and he did that badly. To many viewers, after such a drumbeat of ecstatic praises, it seemed only fair that the door...
...Horn of Plenty. Mattel's thesis is that a state monopoly can do more for Italy than foreign capital, thus does his best to ban outside investors and increase E.N.I.'s power. Starting with capital of $50 million last year, E.N.I, has rapidly expanded until now it controls most of Italy's production and refining, operates a tanker fleet, makes soap and sells 20% of all Italy's gasoline...