Word: horning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this foundation, the author builds a singularly pungent tale of ship yards, cotillions, the rigours of a mid-winter passage of the Horn, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, the economics of the China Trade--in short, the spirit of those adventuresome times...
...When Mr. Harris was buried, nearly every man, woman and child in his county came to drop a flower on his red clay grave. Replace such a man by a city clerk awaiting every morning a circular letter or his master's voice out of a loud speaker's horn? God forbid...
...Beep! Beep!" is to U. S. citizens the nearest phonetic approach to the sound of a certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent...
...largest collection of horns and antlers in this country, has recently been installed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard. This exhibition, which is of the highest interest to sportsmen and naturalists, in almost entirely from the collection of John Charles Phillips '99. There is only one other collection in America which compares with this group for range of variation in horn and antler among the species of hoofed animals, and that is at the New York Zoological Park...
...next morning's meet of the Caldbeck hounds the velvet-capped huntsman of the pack called his hounds, and woke the echoes and stirred the Vicar's sleep with the original battered copper horn of John Peel himself...