Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universities students with automobiles often tie strips of inner tubing to the exhausts, which when the motor is suddenly speeded causes them to emit a familiar noise known as "the bird," "corporal's salute," or "Bronx cheer.'' In Mexico City chauffeurs devised a code of horn signals, added this U. S. innovation. One chauffeur was stopped by a policeman named Tomas Gonzalez, sharply reprimanded for a traffic violation. As the chauffeur drove away he stepped on the accelerator, made his horn issue a loud, vulgar noise. Tomas Gonzalez jumped on the car's running board, beat...
...extant compatriot, Marshal of France Hubert Lyautey, angels may control themselves but men will exchange speculative glances. There is no comparison between the two books, as jobs, nor between the two men who form their subjects. But after reading Lyautey and remembering Ariel, you cannot help feeling that this horn-toot by André Maurois is unfortunate...
Spain is a member of the Pan-American Postal Union. Under that international convention U. S. letters carry only 2? postage to South and Central American countries. It costs no more to mail a letter from Duluth, Minn, to Punta Arenas. Chile, near Cape Horn than it does from Nogales, Ariz, across the street to Nogales, Mexico. Only South American exceptions to the 2? rate are Dutch and French Guiana, which, as non-members of -the Pan-American Postal Union, require 5? postage...
...growing dark in Ypsilanti, Mich., one evening last week when Thomas Wheatley, 17, drove up to the house of his friend Harry Lore, 16, jammed on the brakes and blew a long blast on the horn. Out of the house scrambled Lore and two Cleveland girls who were visiting at his home: his cousin, Vivian Gold, 15, and her friend, Anna May Harrison, 16. All piled into the car; Wheatley snapped on the lights, gave the horn another toot, and away they drove through the quiet streets of Ypsilanti to a cinema...
...Horn-spectacled Gerardo Machado took the "fishing trip" stories so seriously that martial law was declared in the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio. At Luyano, Havana suburb, there took place the Battle of the Stocking Factory...