Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN-Dorothy Baker-Houghton Mifflin...
...played the trumpet in Paul Whiteman's band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano in a Los Angeles mission, shifts to the trumpet under the influence of some first-class Negro musicians, and makes his first success while playing...
...gives accounts of where and when it was played and how Rick Martin fell when he played it-but since what he felt was principally a moment of inspiration and self-forgetfulness, her accounts might apply as well to bad jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about the hard, homely details of musicians' lives, the routine of rehearsals, fights, salaries, jealousies, weariness, interrupted with moments of feverish musical excitement. It comes out strong when she describes the naïve snobbery of Jack Stuart's Collegians, with its clean...
William O. Sweet -- Miss Virginia Horn, Wellesley
Highways. Admiral Horthy, realizing that in Hungary the motorist must horn his way through every village at the speed of its cows and chickens, has slated a concrete speedway program modeled on Adolf Hitler's, tied it to Hungarian Rearmament, since a modern army does not march on its stomach but rides on its tires...