Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roving the seas, three battle cruisers (San Francisco, Tuscaloosa, and Quincy) steamed southward to round Cape Horn and the South Americas, where Franklin Roosevelt proposes if need be to meet "force with force." Laid up for treatment, the U.S.S. West Virginia was anchored off Brooklyn Navy Yard, where naval mechanics replaced a 16-inch gun which cracked during maneuvers in the Caribbean last month. Beautifully at rest, the U.S.S. Tennessee rode the Hudson, to be admired by Manhattan gawpers. But it was at Hampton Roads, Va. that the greatest majesty of the Fleet was seen. There battleships, cruisers, destroyers, auxiliaries...
...final list of Harvard undergraduates participating in the H-Y-P Conference has been decided upon and the men going to Princeton are as follows: Blair Clark '40, Garfield Horn '40, Charles N. Pollak H. '40, Alfred J. Gilbert '41, Spencer Klaw '41, Rodman Gilder '40, William W. Tyng '41, F. Cameron Ludwig '42, Michael P. Grace '40, Robert Bean '39, Francis Bourne '40, Arthur Cantor '40, David Epstein '39, Arthur Gardiner '39, Armand Gilinsky '40, Stanley Kapner '40, Richard S. Lane '41, Irving Lewis '39, Treadwell Ruml '39, James Stern '39, Michael Mayer '39, Richard Ruggles '39, F. Wolch...
...suite on the second floor of Washington's Mayflower Hotel constitutes the legation of the Kingdom of Albania. The drawing room is dominated by a talking-machine with a Gargantuan, oldfashioned, master's-voice horn. Presiding there since 1926 has been cultured, convivial Faik (pronounced "fah-eek") Konitza, a sixtyish bachelor who reads 13 languages, has an earned M. A. from Harvard University and numbers among his friends beauteous Ann Corio, famed Italianate strip-teaseuse...
There is scarcely a stranger spot for Nazi expansion than Argentina's windy, frigid Patagonia, which stretches 1,000 miles down the Atlantic coast almost to Cape Horn. Seeing how their Führer grabs off huge bites of Europe, Nazi agents on other continents are prone to have big ideas over the possibilities of getting some Lebensraum ("living room") in less populated areas of the world. Last week Argentines had a case of Hitler jitters when it was asserted by Noticias Gráficas, sensational Buenos Aires newspaper, that ambitious Nazi agents had presented their Government with...
...believe that Louis has forgotten how to play the marvelous horn he used to, that he no longer does anything but blow high C's; the reason for this misapprehension is that in general Louis isn't playing as great jazz as he was ten years ago--for the very good reason that he was just about making jazz at the time and peaks like that are impossible to stay on. Now the critics listen to him and compare him to his greatest period and say that it isn't as good. Of course not--but despite occasional of-nights...