Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavier than air, and when discharged near the ground it stays there at the level of pedestrians. Professor Henderson's idea was a purely mechanical method of dissipating the fumes in open air. Now, however, comes Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, inventor of the Klaxon auto horn, acoustic devices for the deaf, etc., with a short-cut to the heart of the problem-a chemical compound, which, introduced into the gasoline, eliminates most of the monoxide from the exhaust fumes, as well as the bothersome carbon deposits in the cylinders. The nature of the compound was not revealed...
...horn Concerto was written for his father, the greatest horn player of his time, who did not like it. His first important work was the tone-poem, Aus Italien, which contains a characteristic Strauss mood: "Melancholy Feelings While Basking in the Sunniest Present." Then followed his famous series of dazzling orchestral tales, path-breaking in form and harmony: Macbeth (1890), Don Juan (1888), Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (1895), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1896) and Don Quixote (1898) with its notorious sheep-bleating episode...
...back stroke swim: Ollie Horn of St. Louis...
...performance. Bodanzky, conducting, was at his best, drawing out the full possibilities of the noble horn quartet in the overture and the brisk hunting choruses. Elizabeth Rethberg as Agatha swooned deliciously in her famous Prayer, and the incantations were made trebly hair-haising by being set amidst Josef Urban's haunting stage-sets. An added item was the immortal Invitation to the Walts, interpreted by the nimble-toed Rosina Galli...
...days of the gold rush to California, when ships laden with optimists were dashing madly from the East coast to the West, around Cape Horn, in ISO days. Eastern papers blazoning forth "California advertisements"-sales of trunks, guidebooks, tools, cough-drops, coffee grinders, collapsible boats, patent medicines, rubber garments- every conceivable article a gold digger might conceivably require-even one enterprising concern announcing: "Ho for California! Last, not least! Persons going to the gold regions are seriously advised to take, among other necessaries, a good lot of monuments and tombstones. A great saving can be effected by having their inscriptions...