Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norse God of Thunder, who downed every potion offered him at a gulp, until presented with a drinking horn connected magically with the ocean. Then he caused fluctuations in the tides...
Thus spake the Lord to Moses. Last week, in the dimness of innumerable U. S. tabernacles, the shofar* sounded, reminding the Jews that the world was created by God out of void and a howling darkness 5,686 years ago. The horn rang at sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good...
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...Yellowstone are more than 20,000 elk, 2,000 deer, over 800 buffalo, 500 moose, 600 big horn sheep, more than 400 antelope, hundreds of bears, and other animals without number...
...Author. Gertrude Horn, great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, was born in San Francisco. She married and was widowed young ("one of the most important incidents of my school life"). She wrote travel books with the aid of a geography and claims the introduction to fiction of San Francisco's social life. It is her pride and habit to be "up" on things, especially international politics and psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded...