Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although fully aware of the hilarity this letter will create in the CRIMSON office, and amongst those undergraduates who, judging from superficialities, consider Kramer somewhat of an anomaly at Harvard, none the less I present it. Victor might blow his own horn about the little things, but he would never explain away a criticism which was based on superficialities; that, also, would be petty. And Little Napoleon is certainly not that. (Name withheld by request...
...make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed about such things or not. The Mozart-Kleine Nacht Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very man." He imitated perfectly the sounds he wanted from the English horn, the double bass, the flute. The men's respect mounted until some were calling him the next Toscanini. But Iturbi wanted no adulation. "Please," he repeated frequently. "The music! I am not genius...
...Robert Riggs lithographs now on exhibition at the Grace Horn Galleries are good examples of the work of the man generally considered to be Claude Bellow's most able successor. Concerning themselves solely with the prize ring, the ten lithographs form an excellent instance of what can be accomplished by capable mediocrity when given an opportunity to express itself. Mr. Riggs has been clever enough to realize the wealth of artistic material in the vigorous, stinking lewdness of the small-time professional ring, and although he is hampered by a lack of highly skilled technical ability, he has succeeded well...
...death of Sandino, hero and symbol of Latin-Americans' resentment against what they call "The Colossus of the North," sent a pang of sorrow and dismay from the Rio Grande to the Horn. Named for a Caesar by his well-to-do coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution...
...three or four times as good as the projects under relief. . . . Political interference has been a difficulty. I would not say it is serious but it has been a difficulty. I have quit getting mad about it. . . . I am amazed at the number of people who are trying to horn in on making a little money. . . . The number who have been implicated in graft is very small although it looms large in the public's mind. It may be my own fault. . . . I may have made a mistake in kicking a lot of this stuff outdoors...