Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes him in tow. Like most successful bartenders, Pug Malone is clean-living, highminded. John Breen serves beer, knocks out bruisers, goes to night school. He becomes Malone's assistant on a country farm where men of paunch and riches submit themselves for renovation. One wealthy man, Gilbert Van Horn, less paunchy than most, discovers he is John Breen's father. John finds out too but neither says anything. Van Horn makes John his ward and pays his way through Columbia. John wants to be, and becomes, an engineer, a servant of his first mistress, the city...
...knew Sitting Bull," the tanned, "blue-eyed pathfinder continued when he of the scribbling race had withdrawn him to the more purified region of a tiny lake. "He was a big disappointment. After the battle of Big Horn, which he merely directed from the sidelines, he and his squad of squaw men fled over the border into the greed Canadian territory. Customer's men couldn't follow them, and although we didn't hanker for their presence we had to put up with it. I talked with Sitting Bull in conferences an found him to be a low and wily...
...Wilson told of his trip to the foot of Mount Assiniboine, the so-called Matter horn of the Rockies. "With me was R. L. Barret of Harvard who has the distinction of being one of the first men to reach that region. He is a great traveler and pathfinder. One of our best guides in the Yoho is a Yale man. College men are not tenderfoots at all. More of them, however, should learn the glory of a gun, a fishing rod, a horse, and the famous Kickinghorse Trail from Banff Valley to the Yoho...
Even so he is but a pygmy beside the gigantic sumos (wrestlers) of Japan, men who weigh up to 400 pounds, mountains of fat and muscle who boast that they eat ten times the daily ration of the ordinary Japanese. Anciently sumo (literally "horn power") was a contest of strength between trained bulls. Today 1,200 professional wrestlers, divided into teams, "The East" and "The West," perform at two great championship bouts of ten days' length twice yearly. Each tries to force or throw his individual opponent out of a ring; each has practiced to perfection the "twelve throws...
...America for a combination radio and talking machine week Victor reported earnings of $5,648,446 in the first nine months of 1926ime talking machine, before which Nipper one day squatted inquiringly. Painter Barraud beheld a picture of popular appeal. To brighten up his canvas be borrowed a brass horn from the Gramophone Company Ltd., English subsidiary of Victor, which bought the finished picture, later pensioning Painter Barraud...