Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sobersided dean of a stuffy music school, she is a not-very-convincing ugly duckling. Her horn-rimmed spectacles, sensible oxfords and slicked-back hair wouldn't fool anyone. But for story purposes, Trumpeter James refers to her as an "iceberg." The criticism piques Maureen. Before you can say Max Factor, she has gone shopping for a fancy hairdo and a six-skin blue fox stole. As a swan, she is, of course, downright sensational. The long, low whistles she inspires in all the male members of the cast are the most realistic part of the entire picture. Once...
Everett B. Horn...
Skeptics suspected that the Navy, fighting doggedly against unification of the services and jealous of the Army's atomic bomb, might be tooting its horn too loudly. But there was still a fair chance that the Congressmen's scuttlebutt was based on well-hidden fact. Two novel and dreadful weapons have long been discussed, in whispers...
...King and his Queen were regal with crowns, scepters, robes and brocades. Memphis' secret organizations (Osiris, Ra-Met, Scarabs, Sphinx, etc.) had princes & princesses of their own, dressed them almost as brightly. So did Memphis Negroes, for whom their first citizen-blues writer W. C. Handy-tootled a horn...
...city was startlingly quiet. Hardly a citizen had tooted his automobile horn in the six years since Crump had banned traffic noise. Lawns were clipped and green; Crump wanted the city to be beautiful. Memphis "niggers" (40% of the population) were quiet; and whites, some of whom had Negro mistresses, could say contentedly: "No trouble here; no hifalutin' ideas...