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Word: horned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crosby did not report is the way WOR's two unabashed staff composers, Elliot Jacoby and Richard duPage, turn out their bridge music and titles. Explains Composer Jacoby: "Ye Old English Countryside but Something Is Amiss breaks down into an opening of nostalgic muted strings; then the French horn dirties it up at the end." "Hate," says he, "is almost always bitter brass and off-key woodwinds." Love is usually-a muted string solo, but, "if very throbbing," the sweetly sighing string section is divided, "like Kostelanetz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tender into Rude Awakening | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...painter, De Chirico long ago lost his punch; as a peddler, he still has plenty of push. In June, the superannuated master proved it with an eye-catching ad for Fiat automobiles (TIME, July 3). Last week he was again honking his own horn at a conservative sideshow to Venice's vast international roundup of modern art, the "Biennale" (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sideshow | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...white sweat shirt drew loud laughter by pretending to direct the hymn. Then, some in the crowd picked up dust and debris from the road and tossed it over the singers, but they paid no attention. A loudspeaker truck blaring jazz music raced up and pointed its horn directly at the group. Chief of Police Edward Carpentier arrived and ordered the singers to move on. When the Baptists refused, a dozen burly men hit them in a flying wedge. For 15 minutes the mauling went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: incident at La Sarre | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...early 1600s, a certain gentleman of Jamestown murdered his wife, cut her in pieces and later "was burned for his horrible villainy." In Carolina, a horn snake struck at a small locust tree the thickness of a man's arm, and six hours later the tree was dead. Farther north, some Indians buried a white man, standing, with only his head above ground, scalped him and lit a fire close by. The heat made his brains boil and started his eyes gushing out of their sockets. In Casco Bay, Me., a merman tried to board a hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Joseph T. Walker, Jr., of Chestnut Hill, a general partner in the firm of Horn-blower and Weeks, Boston investment bankers, was elected a member of the Council and a trustee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Chooses Three Bostonians As New Trustees | 6/21/1950 | See Source »

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