Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, such as it is, is concerned with Pirate Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid), an ex-Dutch sea captain, fat, dastardly Spanish Governor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) and aristocratic Francisca (Maureen O'Hara). There is all sorts of high-spirited romancing, pirate treachery, Iberian cruelty and slashing sword play before Van Horn and Francisca finally sail away together into an almost overpoweringly golden sunrise...
Tommy Handley, who usually wears horn-rimmed glasses and looks like a well-domesticated business man, in starched collar, conservative tie, double-breasted suit, has been a music-hall entertainer since World War I, but did not go on the air with ITMA until July 1939. During the war, he kidded home-front nuisances by embroiling himself with the Office of Twerps and the Ministry of Irritation. On last week's program he found England at peace so unbearable that he set out for the mythical island of Tomtopia, where he intends to devote his time to making things...
...sour-grapes Private Dawn Van Horn's letter of criticism of the Tysons' $40,000 debut [TIME, Oct. 1], something should be said: 1) the whole letter glows green with envy; 2) the old principle of live & let live is still a good one; 3) it seems doubtful she's as much worried about the needs of "a thousand American girls" as she is about her getting the Van Horn hands on "a fur coat and a swell watch"; 4) someone should tell Private Van Horn what part intolerance played in starting the war she was just...
...career was a curious mixture of the dull and the intriguing. As a Senator, Lew Schwellenbach had been among the most violent of the New Deal's "young Turks," but his personal life has been in every instance conservatively planned. A mild man who chews his cigars, wears horn-rimmed spectacles and sports a zippered sport jacket on the job. Schwellenbach is studious by temperament but short of temper; judicial-minded but a bear at partisan politics; labor-minded but with a sense of fairness to industry. He is also a man who did not want...
There are still large sections of the world where Canada means Eskimos, Indians and red-coated Mounties who look like Nelson Eddy. To right such misconceptions, the Government last week decided to toot a more unromantic horn. To replace the temporary Wartime Information Board, born in 1942 solely to publicize Canada's war effort, the Government created the Canadian Information Service...