Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campus of Georgia's little (210 full-time students) Piedmont College had been in a turmoil ever since the news leaked out that the college was accepting $500 a month from antiSemitic, anti-Negro Judge George Armstrong's educational association, headed by Major General (ret.) George Van Horn Moseley (TIME, March 12). Last week the uproar boiled over. President James E. Walter, who had already fired one instructor for objecting to the gift, fired Treasurer David B. Eddy, who had never made any secret of his anti-Moseley feeling. Cracked one trustee about all the protests: "The only...
...Cadillac now leaned on the horn, switched his lights on and off, and shouted at me to stop blocking traffic...
...sophomore, junior, senior and graduate averages come from New England homes, wear sweaters, skirts and low-heeled shoes (but seldom black horn-rimmed glasses and, complying with college rules, no blue jeans, ski pants, slacks or the like except in dormitories at certain hours and outdoors in sub-zero, blizzard weather). They prefer arts to technical courses, and are enrolled in the only college in the world that doesn't have a faculty...
Since the Thanksgiving banquet, students and teachers at Georgia's tiny Piedmont College (enrollment: 300) had been wondering what President James E. Walter was up to. That day, he invited Major General George Van Horn Moseley, 76-year-old trumpeter for Aryan supremacy, to speak in the college dining hall. Later, reports got around that Piedmont was getting $500 checks from the educational foundation of which Moseley is head. The money behind the foundation comes from Moseley's old friend, Judge George W. Armstrong of Texas...
...stage, Russell found that his new guise could be a show-stopper too. In a bemused, horn-rimmed way, Russell has become something of a matinee idol, has done for the morale of the spectacle-wearing bookworm what Ezio Pinza did for the middle-aged man. His television appearances have brought him fan mail from all over the country. Grateful mothers often write to thank him for helping reconcile their teen-age sons to glasses...