Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of bop's first excesses have already disappeared. Few of the patrons of the Roost now wear "progressive" berets and green-tinted, horn-rimmed glasses. There are only one or two of the tentative little bop beards visible in the Bopera House bleachers, where the most serious followers pay 90? to sit & listen. Whether bop is trash or treasure, it certainly isn't a dud. Last week it was all over Broadway...
...object to 100 million people eavesdropping on your private life, life can be beautiful-after a fashion. In its role of vulgar Lady Bountiful, radio is showering quiz-answering Americans from its loudspeaking horn of plenty. It supervises their marriages and honeymoons, builds houses for them, gets them jobs-even fixes their teeth or buys them wooden legs...
...Consider what the horn of plenty poured out for the Eastons: a two-week vacation in Paris for the family. (After Paris you still need to find a job.) A place-setting for twelve at the table (here come the relatives). A $2,500 television set (here come the neighbors) ... A diamond ring and a diamond watch and bracelet, valued at $6,000 . . . About $4,000 worth of men's furnishings for Mr. Easton (all dressed up but where do we go?). A $1,500 wardrobe and an $1,800 'natural Norwegian blue-fox pouch cape...
...Minister of War. His admiring colleagues had called him The Razor. In the hour of Japan's defeat, he had tried, and ignominiously failed, to take his own life. During the trial he had shrewdly defended himself and his country. Last week, in his faded army jacket and horn-rimmed spectacles, he did not look like the toothy, maniacal symbol of Japanese frightfulness that U.S. cartoonists had made of him after Pearl Harbor...
...people in the Harvard stands didn't go to sleep, though. They screamed and yelled and hollered as Valpey's harvest hands mowed down the Bruins. When Paul Shafer began cutting his way through the middle of the line, one Crimson enthusiast cut loose with a Diesel horn for accompaniment. The Brown linemen must have found the sound chillingly appropriate as they encountered the head, knees, elbows, and hips of Mr. Shafer...