Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This sennet on the wreathed Tory horn electrified Britons who had all but forgotten, during his five years of wartime Parliamentary speeches, what Churchill can do at the cry of partisan tallyho. Cried Labor's startled Daily Herald: "Crazy broadcast." Cried the Communist Daily Worker: "Conscienceless demagogy." Cried Labor Leader Herbert Morrison (lately Prime Minister Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash...
Today Sperry boasts some 30 ex-professionals who took jobs in the plant and found a chair in the orchestra waiting for them. White-collar workers fill a third of the chairs, but are by no means the top instrumentalists. A former Metropolitan Opera French horn player operates a lathe; the concertmaster (once a hot fiddler for Kate Smith) runs a milling machine. One of the touchiest problems faced by the coldly democratic organization was a none-too-musical Sperry executive who insisted on playing second violin...
...Realty Co. of Casper, Wyo., Ben L. Sherck, prop., offered a bargain in western real estate last week-the Big Horn country's fabled Lost Cabin Ranch. Many a prospective customer was disconcerted at its size-Lost Cabin was designed expressly for an old-fashioned range king. But armchair adventurers were fascinated by its sagebrush-scented legend...
...first chapter was written in 1865, when seven bearded Swedes drifted out of the Big Horn Mountains, halted in a cottonwood grove to pan the gravel of an icy foothill creek. It was rich with coarse gold. They built a cabin, went feverishly to work. Three days later a band of Sioux swept down on them. Only two prospectors escaped. They headed for the Oregon Trail with three baking powder cans of gold, spent a fretful winter at Fort Laramie, then started back to claim the creek's treasure. They were never seen again...
Sweet & Lowdown. In Manhattan, Saxophonist Ernest Andreano was arrested for stealing a shaker full of sugar from a Horn & Hardart Automat...