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Word: horning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard "type" is famous, and is usually diagnosed as a complication of broad "a"s, horn-rimmed glasses, and aloofness. Such a generality is no truer than generalities ever are, this one included. We consider it scarcely fair to Williams to term it "a glorified country club", although we admit that the quantity of golf hose in the student laundry is prodigious. No more is it fair to say that your Harvard host permits you to sit in the corner until he finishes his chapter of Epicurus, and then yawns constantly during a difficult conversation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD CAN NO MORE BE COMPARED TO WILLIAMS THAN AN ELEPHANT TO A ROSE" | 5/29/1925 | See Source »

Crazy Horse, Lame Deer, Spotted Eagle, Elk Horn, Broad Road, Natchez and, most bloody of all, Geronimo the Apache and, most formidable, Sitting Bull- down they went, years ago, before Big Chief Bear Coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Early to War | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...William Edward Hartpole Lecky was horn in Ireland, 1838, and died in London, 1903. He was one of the first great historians to show the connection between the American Revolution and of Great Britain's century-old struggle for popular government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...dance. There is no doubt that he does dance. His dancing of Alger's "Hobby Horse Hop" stopped the opera completely and several hundred graduates broke up the seats; later, in a savage interpretation of the Charleston, to the accompaniment of an obligato on Mr. Moynahan's squeal-horn. Mr. Wilson did things with his knee-joints that didn't seem at all reasonable. There is no use trying to pin his charm down to paper, but you'll come out of "Laugh It Off" raving about Mr. Wilson, so why shouldn't we? If this be Sophomores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hollister Finds "Laugh It Off" Great Success--Says Dancing and Acting of Wilson Feature Pudding Show | 4/16/1925 | See Source »

...exhibition of charcoal and crayon portraits is now being held at the Grace Horn Galleries by Maurice Richard Grosser '24. Grosser recently exhibited a number of his works at the Fogg Museum and on the merits of that exhibition he was awarded a Fellowship which will enable him to spend next year in study abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURES OF FACULTY ON VIEW | 4/14/1925 | See Source »

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