Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intending to toot her horn briefly last night at the intersetion of Linden and Mt. Auburn Streets, a woman driver was distressed when it continued to blow for exactly two minutes and 30 seconds. A passing chauffeur finally silenced the racket, and lusty cheers of relief could be heard the length of the Gold Coast...
...Vermont, Dartmouth, Norfolk Prison Colony, and Melbourne University debates. These men will be picked from the following members of the Council: Rendigs Fels '39, Donald McDonald '39, Jay Kaufman '38, Lawrence Ebb '39, Paul Cherington '40, Stanley Kapner '40, John Weston '38, Ralph Harris '39, Robert Grubbs '39, Garfield Horn '40, Raymond Harris '40, Stanley W. Hertzfeld '39, Henry Wyner '39, Robert Clemonts '40, Robert Beck '39, H. M. Shooshan '39, George F. Fox '38, Jose DeVaron '38, Howard J. Snyder '39, and Malcolm Wilkey...
...these troubled times, when all one reads about in the newspapers are accounts of wars and outrages and sudden death, and when life is made miserable by the noises in Harvard Square, and the horn tooting on Plympton Street after the population has gone to sleep--or rather tried to--we often lose faith in the goodness of human nature. But yesterday something happened that restored our belief in the essential nobility of human-kind...
...music reviews (feuilletons to the journalists of the day) in Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor's evening Star. Often infuriating because the glib reviewer seemed to know everything and to assume that his readers knew nothing, the articles were signed "Corno di Bassetto'' (basset horn- an old wind instrument now superseded by the clarinet). This week, publication of the collected Corno di Bassetto's Star pieces† reminded old (81) George Bernard Shaw's loyal public that he had served his hitch with the musical dead watch long, long...
...studied ten years and given several solo appearances. Chief needs still are for a bassoonist who owns an instrument, and for viola players. Considerable versatility is noted among the players; the head of last year's viola section will be transfered to oboe this year, a horn player has shifted to trumpet, and one man volunteered to play either the flute or the tuba...