Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 900 hunters, out for black-tailed deer, were strung over the slopes of Big Horn Mountains, near Sheridan. Wyo. last week when the blizzard struck early one afternoon. About 700 hunters were able to get down from the hills in time...
...Bounty's voyage, as planned, looked almost like a two-year pleasure trip: she was to call at Tahiti by way of Cape Horn, take on a supply of breadfruit trees for the West Indies, and come home again...
Behind the horn-rimmed spectacles and tousled head lies there a cooler mind, a more capable brain than reposes beneath the nobler brow of these who have gone before? Certainly those unfortunate head-holders who are loaded down with overhead in belt buckles and monogrammed suspender buttons can testify that the men of '38 are utterly impervious to even the most provocative of inducements...
...Vagabond likes to remember once in September when he walked through the town to the harbor, and watched the sailors leaving their ships. He thought of a time when this town sent out the proudest ships in the world, with famous captains, now forgotten. They cleared Cape Horn in midwinter, and struck for whales in the Sea of Japan and on the Malabar Coast. That was a century back. Now they cast their nets in the west Atlantic, and when Autumn comes they glide back to port...
...Horace E. Dodge's seven-year-old- speedboat Delphine IV, driven by Bill Horn of Newport News, Va.: the 29th running of the Gold Cup Race; with a record heat of 59.21 m. p. h.; at Lake Montauk...