Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening he liked to read poetry aloud to the assembled family, or sing snatches of Gilbert & Sullivan and Scottish ballads. He loved to play the "heavy villain" in family melodramas, "dragging one foot behind him, scowling over his shoulder," and barking his favorite ejaculation: "By the great horn spoon...
...train stood on a siding at Halifax, N.S. In the observation car sat a pudgy little man in a visored naval cap, a cheroot in his mouth, his horn-rimmed glasses focused on a newspaper. Outside, a huge crowd swirled and pushed, straining against police lines. The crowd, dressed in its Sunday best, burst into song: first, Roll Out the Barrel; then There'll Always Be an England. Finally, the pudgy man, not relinquishing his cheroot, shuffled to the rear platform, acknowledged the crowd's cheers, and asked for Tipperary. The crowd gave it to him, while Winston...
Slight, blond, horn-rimmed Interpreter Pavlov, who translated for Stalin at Teheran, translated sentence by sentence. Once Molotov broke off a sentence to ask for a match. Then he said: "The Soviet Union will from this time be in a state of war with Bulgaria...
Each man kept his musket, powder horn, wooden canteen, knapsack and uniform. In his pocket were four months' wages in promissory notes, marketable at only two shillings to the pound. Veterans who thought this a meager reward (as most did) had the option of staying in camp until their enlistments were up. But, as Washington had shrewdly guessed, what every one wanted most was to get home...
...heroes went to the White House. Big, blond Lieut. Alexander Vraciu Jr., currently the Navy's top-ranking fighter pilot, collected $1,900 (for 19 Jap planes) from an admiring uncle. He married Kathryn Horn, his slim and pretty sweetheart, and hurried her off to New York to visit the Grumman aircraft plant...