Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informed that seldom has a volume of its nature received such universal commendation from the critics. To quote two reviews from the East and West, out of hundreds-or rather brief excerpts from the reviews-Struth-ers Burt in the Saturday Review of Literature writes: "It is another Trader Horn, but far better than Trader Horn and more veracious. Indeed it is minutely genuine from start to finish, which is by no means the case with the average history of the pioneer, especially when this history is autobiographical...
When buck deer fight to the often as not it is starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side...
...million-dollar building on the citified "campus" of the University of Chicago. Henry and Stanley Field, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Thomas Elliott Donnelley, Harold Higgins Swift, et ul., mingled with a learned collection of archaeologists and other scientists. Neatly bespatted, with waxed mustache almost as shiny as his horn-rimmed spectacles, the Egyptian Minister to the U. S., Sesostris Sidarouss Pasha was there, beaming at one & all, and especially at the rosy little man with fluffy white hair and bright blue eyes whose day and party it was, Dr. James Henry Breasted, foremost Egyptologist...
...aerophor presents its difficulties. It takes a big mouth to hold the forked tube on either side of the big tuba mouthpiece, a special facial-muscle technique to switch from lung to bellows air without interrupting the tone or affecting its quality. But hitherto players on the big horn have had to have the heart and lungs of athletes. Oboists and bassoonists need outside help even more because of their tiny, double-reed mouthpieces. The legend that all woodwind players eventually go mad is based on the fact that they must take in vast quantities of air, then...
Hard, pragmatic Dictator Kemal passed the petition to Angora officials who ignored it, but a rich & pious Turk bestowed on Petitioner Ali a disused house on Turkey's famed Golden Horn (a dirty stretch of water flanked by palaces and woods). Last week Mehmed Ali Bey scratched his woolly poll and complained to a U. S. correspondent: "Neither I nor my wife nor my children can find good jobs in Turkey. Sure we've got jobs, but they are no good. I even had to sell my dictionary. My sons are digging sewers. My daughters are cooks...