Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public Enemy (Warner). Director at an executive meeting: "I've got an inspiration. Well make an African picture. Something new. Go right into the interior and use natives for actors. Nothing like Trader Horn. This one's going to be different. Now what will we call it. Trader what...
What opportunities for unemployed radio announcers, housewives, policemen, college cheer-leaders, and horn-blowers would be created. And even the Daughters of the American Revolution might have their turn. In the end the victory would be for the wise, those whose business is sound...
James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York's glib little Mayor, returned last week from his California vacation, during which the City Affairs Committee had requested Governor Roosevelt to remove him from office (TIME, March 23). Ostentatiously the Mayor got to work. The newspapers carried pictures of him wearing horn-rimmed glasses, posed busily at his desk. It was announced that on the first day of his return he got to the City Hall at 10:22 a. m., a record. Suddenly abandoning the role of wisecracking playboy for that of the diligent chief executive of the nation's largest city...
...TRADER HORN-They could not have followed the book, because the picture is wonderful...
...Watsongraph, to representatives from the U. S. Government, the Michigan State Police, the Press. One man was the hotel owner, white-haired Fred Wardell, president of Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. He had furnished the money to exploit the new invention. The other man. who inspected his guests owlishly through horn-rimmed glasses, was the inventor, Glenn W. Watson, onetime salesman. Mr. Watson, new to inventing, had learned about electricity only three years ago while he played with his son's electrical toys...