Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph ("Fog Horn") Westwood (diminutive Laborite M. P., leaping up and pointing at Colonel Lane-Fox) : "The coward! The dirty, dastardly coward! My aged1 father has been locked out of his work at the mines, and this dastard says my father isn't going to defend my mother...
...grunt from the sheriff stopped his hand; the three men and the huddled shadow listened intently. It was beginning. Darkly, softly borne on the dark soft air, a noise of voices reached the warehouse?tumbled cries, deep and shrill blended together, struck through with the note of an automobile horn continuously blowing. They were in the lane, they were coming up the hill, they were at the door. Lights glared in the warehouse; hands reached for the huddled shadow; they hanged Albert Blazes to a beam. To the sheriff and his deputies all this was a familiar sight. Yet when...
...clock as follows: Entrance, of the Gladlators Fucik Overture to "The Beautiful Galatea" Suppe Fantasia, "Rigoletto" Verdi Suite "L'Arlesienne No. 2" Bizet a. Pastorale b. Minuet c. Farandole Canzone van Westerhout Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov (Solo English Horn: Louis Speyer) American Fantasy Herbert Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
...that backdrop? . . . I think it is simply too quaint. . . ." That no orchestra lurks behind the backdrop is clearly demonstrated when Mr. Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient seat; after a premonitory groan, his brass assaults the tune. . . . The piccolo players, the drummer and the flute stroll in, smiling and chuckling; one of them is trying to get a pack of cards into his waistcoat pocket. Obviously...
...Percy A. Rockefeller was the first important one. He is now middle-aged (48), very tall, indeed taller than his deceased father, William, his cousin, John Davison Jr. (four years younger), or his revered uncle, John D. Sr.** Spectators noted his heavily tanned and freckled complexion, his horn-rimmed spectacles in their gold frame, his slanting forehead, his meticulously parted hair. He answered questions for the most part readily, always frankly, in a mild, almost diffident voice. One trick of his amused the attendants. He pinches his lips between thumb and forefinger every time he must reflect for a phrase...