Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials of the Denver" & Rio Grande Western and the Denver & Salt Lake Railway Co. loudly blew their own horn. The tortuous, dangerous trackage they shared through the Colorado Rockies, said they, would henceforth be as safe as a baby's crib. Reason: they had spent $5,000,000 to build a "foolproof" central traffic control system (CTC). A dispatcher could keep such close tabs on train movements that it was "absolutely impossible for two trains to come together unless an engineer deliberately runs through a signal...
...marching for all U.S. foot soldiers, living and dead, who had "walked through the mud" of World War II. They had jumped and fought from Casablanca to Berlin. Now, in the biggest U.S. victory parade, they marched as though they heard the bugles of Gettysburg and the Little Big Horn, of San Juan Hill and Château-Thierry, sounding with their bands...
...parlor upstairs, Sime's thirsty intimates could get a drink or close a big deal in Volstead days. Today, beside its faded sofa, ancient radio with morning-glory horn, and murals of Charlestoning showgirls, stands a television set. Over the entrance is a neon sign (reading Chateau de L'ayem), a gift to Sime from Protégé Jimmy Durante...
Mother Hen to Jazz. There were good men on the bandstand: Saxman Bud Freeman; cocky, stocky Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe (Little Sir Echo) Marsala, Drummers Dave Tough and George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop...
...only star. Mexico's own Silverio Perez took his bull with almost equal skill, got as great an ovation. Determined to outdo Silverio, the visitor from Spain returned to the ring. When Manolete tried a lance (pass with the cape), the bull evaded the cape, drove a horn deep into the Spaniard's left thigh...