Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go." Thus, as his father had done before him, and on the same spot in Menlo Park, N. J., recited Assistant Secretary of Navy Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, into the straight horn of the first phonograph ever manufactured, as part of the cornerstone ceremony of an Edison "Tower of Light" monument, to be surmounted by a 13-ft. incandescent bulb...
...Hampshire's Senator Bridges, who blew his horn on behalf of the U. S. mails, blew again with the suggestion that the child labor provisions be removed from the Act and submitted to Congress separately on their own merits. Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA boss, asked belligerently: "Why did both Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green seek modifications? . . . Because it threatens the very existence of unionism. Because it is utterly Fascistic...
...Paul L. Franken; Joseph J. Geehern; Jerome L. Gilbert; Robert J. Glaser; Edwin St. J. Greble, 3d.; Frederick W. Griffin; Charles D. Griffith; David G. Halstead; Emrys C. Harris; Robert W. Harvey; Raymond F. Healey; Thomas V. Healey; Richard H. Hemp; Samuel S. Herman; Allen K. Herring; Garfield H. Horn; Robert G. Hoye; Arthur Isenberg; William E. Kendall; John F. Kennedy...
...Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn mustachios and elegantly grasping a white kid glove and a pint of bitters in his right hand...
...driver and mechanic. First to finish was dapper little Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis, who set a new record for the race by averaging 113.58 m.p.h. Only 20 yd. behind was Ralph Hepburn of Los Angeles in the car which Louis Meyer drove to victory last year. Third was Ted Horn, also of Los Angeles. To winner Shaw went some $40,000, mostly put up by automobile men who consider the race a good way to test their products...