Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty Turkish policemen of Constantinople completed, last week, a course rendering them "proficient in the English language" and thus considerably more useful to the 17,000 tourists who annually visit the "City of Minars" and the Golden Horn...
...Killing. Powder-Horn Pete (Wallace Beery) and Dead-Eye Dan (Raymond Hatton) of the Ozark Mountains are hired by the Hicks family to kill all the Beagles. Thinking that the Beagles are four-legged animals, Pete and Dan slap thighs in joyful anticipation of easy slaughter. But the Beagles are a family of two-legged humans. The problem is finally solved without bloodshed when one little Beagle girl (Mary Brian) marries a Hicks boy. Here & there, a laugh ensues. . . . Paramount advertises the film as the last of the Beery-Hatton comedies...
...unmitigated liar" who has "grossly slandered Livingston, Stanley, Cecil Rhodes." The slander: that Livingston married a black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were impossible for any young employe, virtually a desk-bound office boy, of Hatton & Cookson. Unfortunately "Horn" lays claim to these experiences during his term of employ...
...face of such criticism, Ethelreda Lewis, discoverer, editor, and co-author of Trader Horn, maintains confidence in her garrulous and often tedious old peddler. And by way of backing up her publishers' brilliant advertising campaign, based as it is on the essential truth of Trader Horn, she writes a 52-page introduction to volume two, refuting all past and future doubts as to authenticity. She emphasizes the difficulty of computing dates because the trader's 74 years have (conveniently) mingled and mellowed into great confusion: instance his conviction that the Great War was in 1902. She records...
Thereupon follows a story which was written at the same time as volume one, but even the trader admits "I couldn't lay claim this time to its being autobiography." Himself a Lancastrian, "Horn" grew up with all the folklore of a yarn-swapping race, and out of remembered bits from the mouths of old men he has woven a maundering tale of his Viking ancestors: Young Harold, born with webbed hands and feet -emblem of luck in a seagoing world-set out a-pirating with a crew of other "elderly boys"; the climax to their voyage, a sharp...