Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern cyclist does not get the exhilaration which one felt bestride one of these mighty wheeled bicycles, especially when it was the custom to blow a horn with one free hand. Beside these cyclists strode groups of "pedestrians", not sauntering in dress clothes but flailing the air with their elbows and equipped according to the sport catalogue. At times there would go racing by a "gentleman's driving outfit", consisting usually of a buggy stripped for speed, fragile wheels and a pair of well clipped, mettlesome horses that could do a mile in not too many seconds over two minutes...
Octavius Thorndike Howe '73: Argonauts of 49. A thrilling account of the Companies of Massachusetts gold-seekers who went round the Horn seventy-five years ago; Illustrated with pictures of old sailing vessels...
...Antony DeW. Howe '87, which contains the biographies of Harvard men who fell in the Great War from April 7 to August 4, 1918; "Argonauts of '49" by Octavious Thorndike Howe '73, which tells of the thrilling experience of a company of Massachusetts gold-seekers who went around the Horn 75 years...
...When a passenger of the foot hove in sight tootle the horn, trumpet at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacle your passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of the mouth the warning...
...Ginn and Co., is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. The collection, supplemented by everything which bears on the subject of Education throughout the centuries, contains manuscripts of the works which were regarded as the sources of learning in the middle ages, down to horn-books, primers, and even samplers of a later day. The collection will be in the Treasure Room for about three weeks...