Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognize, of course," said the Minister of Transport, "that at first some motorists may, in certain circumstances, sound their horns almost instinctively. ... As a general rule however, if a pedestrian suddenly steps off the pavement in front of a car, the motorist must stop without sounding his horn...
...desire that the priceless boon of sleep and rest be conferred as quickly as possible on as many as possible, and that the sick in particular shall be freed from the torment of the motor horn at night. . . . The caution which a motorist instinctively displays when he no longer has recourse to his hooter is a contribution to the measure we are taking to increase public safety...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man, both smash hits. He rarely makes more than two "takes" of a scene; many directors make a dozen. He is a reserve captain in the Marine Corps. Most of his friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning...
Prime problem in corset making when the Brothers Warner went into it was boning. Whalebones were expensive. Horn was brittle. Iron and steel bones rusted so quickly that one or two washings made the corset as ugly as it was uncomfortable. So in 1894 the Warner Brothers, working with Worcester's American Steel & Wire Co. (now part of U. S. Steel), presented the rustproof steel corset rib. It revolutionized the boning business, made whale-bones obsolete...
...Western plains. Pre-empted the last free land-Now it is time (I have known it long in my heart} for this country To twist a lariat of us and throw it Over the ocean-to-ocean-flinging land And flip its loop across the lifted, crashing Defiant horns of the wild American spirit And with a twist around the saddle horn Drop it to earth, and on its sprawling hide Burn the clear new-world brand that unto men Shall be a witness of our heritage Wherever that great untamable beast shall toss The stars of heaven...