Word: horned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn. "A robbery, eh? Anything stolen?" To this slyly astute question, posed by the dryly astute Superintendent Quilt (Peter Sellers) of Scotland Yard, the answer is wryly affirmative and highly sinister. It seems that an international ring of Mukkinese battle-horn smugglers has heisted a Mukkinese battle horn from a museum in London. Description of stolen article: about 20 feet of antique copper plumbing, positively pimpled with rubies and emeralds. Looks like an anaconda necking with a nose cone, sounds like a hippo with gastritis, contains a slot for used razor blades...
Where oh where can that battle horn be? The well-aled machinery of the Yard begins to ho-hum. "Police photographers" rush in, set up their cameras, photograph the police. Dragnets are spread. "Calling Car ii D. Turn left into Oxford Street . . . Calling Car 5 K. Turn right into Oxford Street." Crash! A few frames later a man's suit is found without a man in it. After exhaustive analysis, the lab releases its report: "This suit needs cleaning." Suddenly a stone comes flying through the window and lands on Quilt's desk. "Aha!" cries the master sleuth...
...summer circuit, Kenton keeps his men in a state of near exhaustion that, strangely, seems to add to their cohesion and musical esprit. To the usual jazzed-up dissonances that are his musical trademark, Kenton this year has added the sound of the mellophonium, a kind of straightened French horn that he developed to fill in a range of sound that usually remains unexploited-somewhere between the trumpet and the trombone. Whipped by the rhythm section's artfully lagging beat, the buttery mellophonium sound satisfies the taste of as many as 5,000 a night. As a result...
...ground-based horn and its complicated collection of equipment has unlimited electricity available, but Telstar's operating power comes from its solar cells, which generate only 15 watts-not enough to keep all its apparatus operating all the time. As a result, the satellite's command obeying system, which throws electronic switches in response to coded signals from the earth, is one of its most important features. When circuits are not needed, they can be turned off to conserve power and to give the solar cells a chance to recharge Telstar's storage battery...
...come in the next minute. They are orders to the satellite to start transmission." After another pause, Brown said deliberately: "'A' command sent, 'A' command O.K. 'B' command sent, 'B' command O.K. We're beginning to track it. The large horn has it. Signals are entering the horn...