Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sank over $25,000,000 worth of allied shipping without killing a man, how he entertained his prisoners on seized luxuries and costly wines so that they protested against being set ashore, how he fled on his armed schooner through the ice floes of Cape Horn and eluded a waiting enemy squadron by fabricated wireless messages are details which read like the imagined adventures of the veriest romancer. The loss of the Seeadler and his further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean...
arches, of a horn...
...when the heavily-heralded Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion of France, champion of England, lost the first three holes to Mrs. Fraser and the match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match to a little-known Kansas City wife, Miriam Burns Horn. Mrs. Horn, once western champion, won 1 up. Meanwhile Maureen Orcutt, whose name (someone observed) sounds like a hair tonic, destroyed the alien Miss Mackenzie-2 and 1 Miss Orcutt is metropolitan champion and the huge gallery did not regard her nervousness, revealed by constantly snapping fingers, fatal...
...dressing room at the Metropolitan Theatre. "It is the most sensational instrument that has been invented in many years. I ran across one last summer while I was touring in Germany, and it immediately impressed me as being a remarkable find. Briefly in consists of a violin with a horn-like arrangement on it to improve the tone...
...Hound and Horn is exactly the magazine one will like if one likes that sort of thing. Other new publications have had less merit; certainly few have possessed the technical excellence of this one. The substantial list of god fathers, including President Neilson of Smith and Professor Murdock of Harvard does a great deal toward removing the qualms which its rather vague parentage gives forth. Those who can neither read Plato is the original nor Harrah's is signs may appreciate the tremendous significance exhibited by snapshots of Cambridge candy kitchens; those who are able to do neither...