Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Joseph Mason Reeves, native of Tampico, Ill. first displayed gallantry in Naval action. Four years later he was a lieutenant, junior grade, aboard the Oregon when under forced draft that famed warship made her record run from San Francisco around Cape Horn to arrive just in time for the Battle of Santiago. For "eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle" he was advanced four numbers in rank...
...three Balkan kingdoms with Czechoslovakia, Greece and Turkey in an ambitious union against fascism. In this great design France and Russia, implacable foes of fascism, are supposed to be using their influence to forge an anti-fascist chain across Europe from the English Channel to the Golden Horn...
...patch on a prison farm near Crockett, Tex. Suddenly Convict Joe Palmer dived head-first into a brushpile, came up with a .45 automatic in his hand. While he blazed at the guards two more convicts scooped two more guns out of the brush. Somewhere behind a barn a horn honked steadily. Out of rank weeds edging a ditch two men rose, splattered machine gun and pistol bullets around the wounded guards as five prisoners scrambled toward the honking horn. Fugitives and deliverers then roared out of sight...
Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...
...Equally characteristic was Toscanini's greeting to his Philharmonic-Symphony men. Day after he arrived he attended a concert, went backstage in intermission and stopped a tremendous ovation to ask "Where is my first horn, Jaenicke?" Shy, red-faced Bruno Jaenicke, whom Toscanini considers the world's greatest horn player, had stayed home that day with a stomach-ache...