Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Muted Horn. In Richmond, Ind., Conductor Fabien Sevitzky bided his time during a prelude until the score called for a crashing chord, blew his nose once on the downbeat, once on the upbeat-satisfactorily but inaudibly...
When the Vanguard crossed the equator, the traditional ducking was omitted as too undignified for royalty; instead the Princesses became members of the Order of Shellbacks (traditionally permitting them to spit to windward except in the presence of one who has rounded Cape Horn), with a simpler initiation: ship's petty officers doused their noses with powder and fed them pills. Warned that the pills might be made of soap, Margaret refused to touch them until her big sister ate one and assured her it contained a cherry...
...Breath. From the Gulf and from Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
...Coach Hal Kopp's Jayvee quintet swamped a shorter Suffolk University squad 45 to 27 in the Indoor Athletic Building last night. High scorer for the Crimson was Frank Bixler, who netted the opening tally of the game and went on to rack up 16 points before the final horn...
...London peddler, howling unintelligible Cockney among gear groans and horn toots: "Cut iris, cut cauliflower, Yorkshire blue peas and brand new potatoes...