Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Garrulous, white bearded Mr. Smith, famed as Alfred Aloysius "Trader Horn," reached England, last week, on the S. S. Carmania, having voyaged from Manhattan with Richard Simon, a partner of the firm of Simon and Schuster, his publishers. Up to last week 168,000 copies of Mr. Smith's colorful autobiography, Trader Horn, had been sold. He, proud independent, left the U. S. without yielding to a single one of numerous tempting offers from advertisers who wanted to pay "Trader Horn" for endorsing their products...
...Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
...Trader Horn. The old man named Smith who "dictated" a fanciful autobiography of his life in Africa and signed it "Alfred Aloysius Horn" continued his adventures in Manhattan last week...
...publishers, Simon & Schuster, presumably arranged to have Mr. Smith interviewed by another of their best selling authors, famed Will (Story of Philosophy) Durant. To newsgatherers Philosopher Durant later confided: "After talking to Trader Horn, I am convinced a man can love after seventy...
...Summerall, Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, Bernarr Macfadden (Graphic). Herbert Bayard Swope (World), Will Hays, Tex Rickard, Charles Michael Schwab, Otto Hermann Kahn, William Randolph Hearst, Alexander Pollock Moore (U. S. Ambassador to Peru and new owner of Daily Mirror), Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, David Belasco, Mr. Smith (Trader Horn), Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Elder, Kathleen Norris, the McCarthy sisters, others, including President Emma Bugbee of the New York Newspaper Women's Club...