Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Menominee, Mich., one Oscar Lebouf sighted through underbrush, squeezed his rifle-trigger, went crashing through the bushes after his bullet. Still twitching on the ground lay a buck deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his gun he fumbled in his pocket for his shipping license, whipped it out, tied it to a horn. "Sac' bleu, no man can come an' take heem now," whispered Mr. Lebouf. He proudly examined the body to see where' his bullet had struck. Tickled back to consciousness...
...phonodeik, consisting of a small glass diaphragm whose vibrations were magnified 40,000 times, transferred by means of a revolving mirror, the notes produced by the French horn and the clarinet on the screen as wavy lines...
...scintillating saves that the 1928 six was able to go through its season undefeated. Against the Dartmouth Freshmen and St. Paul, the former Middlesex luminary was especially brilliant, standing off repeated assaults to give his mates a chance to come out at the big end of the horn by a narrow margin. Adams, who for a long time was Morrill's chief rival for the goal position on the 1928 team, was sick during the greater part of his Freshman year Last year he alternated with Morrill as Cummings substitute, and this year be is again fit to give Morrill...
...William Hale Thompson the horn-blowing mayor, and Fred Lundin, the silent man with the black glasses. The only member of the Lorimer- Thompson-Lundin gang left in power is Lennington Small, Governor of Illinois...
Besides Dix, a number of former football stars appear in the picture. Among them are Garvey of Notre Dame, the Morey Twins of Brown. Russell of Georgetown, Van-Horn of West Point, and David Butler of Leland Stanford. Esther Ralston is featured in the leading feminine role. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and Head Coach Arnold Horween '21, and a score of substitutes and Second University players accompanied the team...