Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening program of the series will be as follows: Beethoven, Sextet for String Quartet and Two Horns in E-flat (Opus 81b); Hindemith, Third Quartet; Brahms, Quartet in C-minor (Opus 51). Messrs. Valkenier and Lannoye, horn players of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be the assisting artists at tonight's concert. The members of the quartet are Norbert Lauga, first violin; Clarence Knudson, second violin; Jean Cauhape, viola; and Yves Chardon, all of whom are also members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Some 1,200 years ago lived a stout Bishop of Liege named Hubert. A mighty hunter was he, whose horn would sound right valiantly through the Forest of Ardennes. After his death Hubert was sainted; he had traditionally been converted on a Good Friday when, hunting, he saw a miraculous stag with a shining crucifix between its antlers. A patron of hunters, St. Hubert may be invoked in cases of hydrophobia...
...duration record which still stands. Next year Harmon made another endurance record, which does not survive. It was in an airplane, first flight across Long Island Sound, from Mineola, L. I. to Stamford, Conn. Time: 2 hr. 3 min. At 64 Col. Harmon is dapper, bulky, heavy-jowled, horn-rimmed eye-glassed. He is currently much better known in Paris, where he has resided for 15 years, than in New York where he was an affluent realtor. He established Harmon-on-Hudson, the Manhattan suburb where outbound New York Central trains exchange electric for steam locomotives. He is a brother...
...friendly abstainers, all Deputies of the militant Right, were led by former Premier André Tardieu, called "L'Americain" because of his go-gettishness. Last week M. Tardieu turned up for the opening of the Chamber without his usual mustache and wearing horn-rimmed Harold Lloyd lunettes. Correspondents reported that L'Americain "looked more like an American than ever."* The reason pugnacious M. Tardieu & friends of the Right abstained from voting against M. Herriot & friends of the Left was because they interpreted his "plan" as a direct thrust at Germany...
...Hearstpapers editorialed: "But why necessarily an American? Ramsay MacDonald, Mussolini, Premier Yenizelos, the almost-Emperor Henry Pu Yi, Mr. Litvinov of the Soviets, King Zog, the King of Siam and the Maharaja of Mysore wear 'em. Horn-rimmed glasses have become international. They are still the best first-aid to those desirous of that intellectual look. The real ultra-highbrows, of course, cling severely to a pince-nez with black ribbons...