Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder that the reputedly "gripping" action drags. Mr. Barrymore is Sergeant Ivan Markov, of peasant birth, who attains a lieutenant's commission in the Russian army by hard work and through the influence of a kindly general (George Fawcett). Ivan worships the general's haughty daughter (Camilla Horn), but she treats him as peasant swine. One night, he accidentally falls asleep in her boudoir and is degraded and cast into prison for his ungentlemanly mistake. The prison gives Mr. Barrymore an opportunity to put on the grease paints and a beard, to look horribly woebegone. The Red Revolution...
...three-colored signal light (red, amber, green) stands at the corner showing green to the highway, red to the road. Close by, on the less important road, is a telephone transmitter fixed to a post, and connected with the light. The motorist seeing red slows down; blows his horn as he passes the transmitter. This picks up the sound waves, transmits them to the signal light thereby shifting the electrical circuit and changing the red light through amber to green, the green light through amber to red. The change lasts for ten seconds, or any time determined by the adjustment...
Overture to "The King of Ys"--Lalo Air TristeLangendoen English Horn Solo: Louis Speyer Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini Two Movements from the "Fantastic Symphony" Berlioz a. A Ball. Waltz., Allegro non troppo b. March to the Scaffold. Allegretto non troppo Symphonie Poem, "Omphale's Spinning Wheel" Saint-Saens Ballet Suite, "La Glara" Casella trance of the Peasants. Brindisi. General Dance, Finale Tenor Solo: Rulon Y. Robison Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms Waltz from "Coppelia" Delibes Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt
...days after his visit to John Ringling's menagerie, President Coolidge received a one-animal menagerie in his office. It came in a goldfish bowl and consisted of a horned toad (Phrynosoma cornutum). Old Rip, the toad's name was, because it was supposed to have been buried in the cornerstone of the Eastland, Tex., court house, for 31 years. That it was still alive, President Coolidge could plainly see. As he discussed its merits with Senator Mayfield and some other Texans, he pointed at it, not with his finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed...
John Pierpont Morgan sailed into the Golden Horn near Stamboul, Turkey, on his yacht Corsair. His cousin, Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, had arranged to have the daughter of a onetime Governor of Jerusalem take Mr. Morgan on a Turkish sightseeing tour...