Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bull caught up with Manolete (Manuel Rodríguez), Spain's No. 1 matador (TIME, July 21), at a benefit performance. His horn bit three inches into Manolete's calf, "destroying a muscle," the doctors said. But the great man stayed right in there until he had dispatched the beast, whose ears, as a token of popular esteem, were presented to him in the infirmary...
Summons. In Seattle, Assistant Police Chief Batson recognized his own auto horn, rushed out to the street, where one very tipsy Frank Ard was sitting in the car, shouting: "Service...
When E. J. Kahn some months ago wrote a New Yorker article telling how his black horn-rimmed glasses had got him branded as a Communist, the anecdote was good for a big giggle. But today, with President and Republican opposition elbowing each other energetically in a scuffle to see whose version of "radical" will be publicized in the upcoming purge, Kahn's article could at best draw only sickly smiles. For now, when the questions of the reconstituting of Europe, the possibility of new wars, and whether we Americans are going to be eating hearty a few years from...
...early in Tanglewood's season, and the sounds that came out of the Berkshire woods were more cacophonous than symphonic. In the vast Music Shed, a student orchestra was rehearsing; in a nook of the carefully pruned gardens, a student agonized in solitude with his French horn. Strolling amid these sights & sounds was a short chunk of a man with a square face and a wild mane, who looked like a composer. He was-he was also guest of honor at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival. His name: Arthur Honegger...
...advanced and specially gifted musicians" will be provided with extracurricula not offered by the East's famed but city-bound Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis: a private beach and mountain scenery, as well as a list of celebrated teachers, advisers and sponsors as long as an unwound French horn...