Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRASH! Every 15 minutes all night long bombs burst in Havana as token that the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Gerardo Machado had commenced. Beyond breaking a great many windows and killing a three-year-old child, the bombs did little damage. When it comes to terror, horn-spectacled Dictator Machado is still more than a match for his opponents. Cursing, police reserves and ununiformed gangs of the dreaded Porra (secret police) poured out and went to work...
...Donald Horn, Northwestern University swimmer; a new world's record (2:29.8) for the 200-yd. breast stroke; in the intercollegiate meet at Yale's new Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
...Werner, who has done some fine work for the Hound and Horn now takes over the rather easy duty of a thinking man, that of showing up Radio City. This is probably the last word that need be said on this thing, the Radio City, "conceived in the lush days. . . the posthumous child of Coolidge Prosperity". It is a strong one, and wastes no time salaaming to that super-dreamer, Mr. Rothapfel. The cool reception of Roxy's first programs may have disillusioned John D. Rockefeller as to the merits of his distribution of "God's Gold"; the Art spread...
...Hudson near Newburgh, N. Y. Her father, Warren Delano II, was a wealthy China tea merchant. Her great-great-great-great-grandfather, Philip de Lannoy, landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1621 aboard the Fortune. When Sara was eight, her mother took her and six brothers and sisters around the Horn on the clipper Surprise to Hongkong. The voyage lasted 110 days. Later there were trips to Paris, breathtaking glimpses of the Empress...
American Dream (by George O'Neil; Theatre Guild, producer). Unlike Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Poet O'Neil makes no attempt to evoke the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost with dollar-silver in its saddle-horn, the pure elixir, the American thing. Poet O'Neil's preachment is the sort of cheap claptrap with which a third-rate evangelist might try to impress a young folks' Bible class. That it impressed the Guild's hard-headed production committee is cause for wonder...