Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 12, Cecil P. Brown of Portland, Maine, expresses appreciation of Harold Keates Hales, M. P. "as a great and progressive human" in that he claims to be the only automobile driver in the world who has never once blown his horn...
...wonder what horn-ignoring Harold Keates Hales has done if and when, while driving, he has met a car coming across the road towards him with its driver looking off to the side and not realizing that he has changed the course...
...would like to ask horn-hating Cecil P. Brown if he has ever turned a corner to find his way completely blocked by playing children. Or has he come upon unmindful chickens or dogs, which I find usually respond to a horn's blast and scamper aside to safety...
...With his horn-rim spectacles and pendant forelock, Floyd Odium looks like a hardworking young bank clerk. But the long, sharp face and steady gaze are those of a canny trader. Few can match Floyd Odium's record of creating a $110,000,000 business in the midst of Depression. Born at Union City, Mich, to an improvident Methodist minister, he made his first profits picking berries, spraying vegetables, digging ditches, selling clothes. Once he rode an ostrich in a race against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned...
...Miller motor. A few days before the race, a broken connecting rod turned this into a twisted pile of junk which could not be rebuilt in time for the start. Mr. Reis reinstalled his old motor, stopped tinkering and announced that his boat was ready to race, against Bill Horn's Delphine IV, with a new $7,000 supercharger and Victor Kliesrath's Hotsy Totsy II, with a brand new supercharged Wright motor. If she could win, it would be the first time one boat had taken the Cup three times...