Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Splendid Road. Back in '49 there were a good many people going out to the gold fields by the water route around the Horn. Herein you follow the travels of one of them, impersonated by Anna Q. Nilsson. In California she encounters Lionel Barrymore, playing a gambler. Later there is a flood...
...taxi whose driver shrilly squawked his little bulb horn whizzed up to the door. Out stepped the returning U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore was welcomed with acclaim. From his native Pittsburgh to Madrid he is known as a good fellow cast in the Gargantuan mold...
...square-shouldered Vandervelde signed next, without causing comment. But "A. Briand" was "fairly dashed into script." Mr. Baldwin signed "easily and casually." Sir Austen, however, created practically a sensation by "taking off the monocle, without which he is never seen . . . adjusting a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles and signing with a golden quill-pen presented to him by the British delegation to Locarno." Signor Scialoja signed with "an ordinary quill...
Last week the long-heralded composition, "Concerto in F" was played in Carnegie Hall; with Mr. Damrosch conducting, Mr. Gershwin at the piano, and all the fine fiddlers, horn-blowers and hide-thumpers of the Symphony Orchestra in attendance...
GOLD OF OPHIR-Sydney and Marjory Greenbie - Doubleday, Page ($4). The story of the lure of the Orient in early America, how it drew Yankee clippers around the Horn, how it propelled the movement westward across the continent...