Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precisely this too-early maturity in ... manners, customs, habits and dress in Americans which makes them reach such an early, uninteresting and uniform middle age. What could be lovelier than an American girl at 19 or 20 . . .? What more dreadful than the American woman of 40 with her horn-rimmed spectacles, her leathery skin, her strident voice, her rushing about to lectures and committees, her general air of running the country and . . . culture? . . . Why is ... America the most uncultivated of all the great nations? The answer is surely because culture is the job of women, while the serious business...
...Home"). At 16 he formed his own Original Memphis Five, soon found himself proprietor of one of the most popular little outfits in the U.S. For a while, a youngster named Bix Beiderbecke, who was to die at 28 and become a jazz immortal, carried Phil's horn for him, listening and learning. Between 1917 and 1925 the Memphis Five made 3,011 records...
Tewfik Pasha Abul Huda hurriedly summoned a special meeting of Jordan's Parliament in Amman last week and swore all the members to secrecy. Then, as his eyes moistened behind his large, horn-rimmed glasses, the Prime Minister of Jordan told the assembled deputies and senators a sad story...
Died. Captain Robert Huntington, 83, who went to sea at nine as cabin boy, skippered sailing ships around Cape Horn, and in 1921, from his small Manhattan radio station (KDKF), first adopted the call for medical assistance: MEDICO-a signal which takes precedence over all other calls at sea except S O S; on Staten Island...
...years, Texaco, Ohio Oil and Bay Petroleum have all put up new office buildings in Denver. Big new reserves have been turned up in Wyoming's Pow der River and Big Horn basins. Promising finds are being developed in the Ute country of adjoining Utah, where the hunt for oil had once been abandoned. But Salt Lake's determined Wildcatter J. L. (Mike) Dougan kept on trying, despite a heartbreaking series of dry holes. Finally, after two years, he brought in Utah's first commercial well. But that wasn't the end of his heartbreak...