Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...geezer, who used to stay at the Royalton when it was a comfortable dump with furniture that couldn't fight back, now makes a mistake. As he sits, he tries to work too close to the bull. He swings his legs past the right horn, one of the chair's arms, and sinks down. A hideous ripping sound arrests all conversation. Does someone say, "Oh, the poor man"? Do paramedics dressed as bellboys come running with plasma and a stretcher...
Mitchell's book Job in Female Garb: Studies on the Autobiography of Agneta Horn analyzes the seventeenth-century life story of an aristocratic Swedish woman...
...daughter of a field marshal, Horn wrote about how she was dragged through various battlesites during the Thirty Years' War and was married and widowed by the time she reached her late twenties. In his book, Mitchell makes the point that Horn's biography is actually an "unintentional novel" and "the most interesting work of Swedish literature of that century...
Professor of English and Folklore Joseph Harris says Mitchell's commentary on Horn is "a brilliant piece of literary detective work." Mitchell's insight, says Harris, showed that when Horn wrote her story, she structured it with certain Biblical passages, and in so doing unwittingly wrote the first Swedish novel...
...team that wants to go to Maine is like a team that wants to go to Maine is like a team that wants to book passage on the Titantic or a bus ticket to Little Big Horn. [Maine Coach] Shawn Walsh is like Sitting Bull waiting for Custer."--B.C. Assistant hockey Coach Steve Cedorchuk, referring to teams that have to play Maine...