Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unicorn of fable was a fierce, creature with the head and body of a horse, the hind legs of an antelope, the tail of a lion or horse, a long sharp horn growing from its forehead. In the Authorized Version of the Old Testament unicorns are mentioned four times; in the Revised Version the Hebrew word, R'ēm, is translated "wild ox." During the Middle Ages the belief was prevalent that the savage unicorn was soothed by the sight of a virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this...
...religious of a Spanish monastery presented a unicorn horn in a handsome leather case to the new Pope, Gregory XIV, who was in feeble health. Next year the Pope sank so alarmingly that it was gravely decided to administer the powdered tip of the horn. Despite this strong medicine, or perhaps because of it, the Pope died. In 1909 the horn, minus tip and plus a few worm holes, was brought to light and sold to a man in Rome, who later sold it to a U. S. collector, who still later gave it to Manhattan's American Museum...
...life was homely, consistent with his upbringing. His father taught him music with the hope that it might earn him a living. He was set to playing the piano before he could reach the pedals and he was scarcely in his 'teens when he could tootle on a horn and play passably on the violin and 'cello. Father Brahms wanted his son to concentrate on dance tunes, for he often took him to play in the red-light district where they could earn a few thalers and all the supper they could eat. It was to Father Brahms...
...judicially decided in only one way, namely, in favor of the obvious facts of municipal excellence. For the proficiency of our irrestible and incon-proficiency of our irresistible and inconcessful rebuttal. Rusticity is both Indicrous and lugubrious. In its very quintessence, it is a preposterous species of excoriating emasculation. Horn in commiserative stagnation, bred in plethoric delinquency, luxuriating in obfuscated excruciation, irretrievably floundering in the insidious infiltration of retributive impoverishment and unavoidable degeneration. It at last consummates its lamentable termination in unfathomable and immutable oblivion...
...Russian singers which calls itself the Art of Musical Russia, Inc. Five days later the same performers gave Lady Macbeth in Manhattan. Audiences in both cities were equally impressed with the naivete of Comrade Shostakovich. The 28-year-old composer, who looks like a schoolboy with thatched hair and horn-rimmed glasses, had borrowed his story from Nikolai Leskov, a long-dead author who made his murderess a fiend incarnate. Shostakovich read of her crimes and promptly forgave her. Poor Katerina Izmailova! He would continue to call her Lady Macbeth but audiences were to understand that she was an innocent...