Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Alex Vraciu, top Navy ace (19 planes), was married in East Chicago, Ind. to 21-year-old Kathryn Horn...
Heroic Ugliness. Horn-rimmed Auctioneer Harry Loree moved from bedroom to bedroom, followed by a herd of bidders. In each room he mounted a chair, addressed his audience in machine-gun auctionese: "I have eight dollars bid for the pier-mirror eight dollars eight dollars eight dollars SOLD to what's the name please?" Prices were middling: $25 for most of the marble-topped dressers, $3 to $50 for figured carpets, $20 apiece for twin brass beds. One of the 888-ft. long red Axminster carpets from a hallway brought $1, 600. For the two florid front-lawn urns...
...selections from Latin-American history and fiction of the past 100 years. It tells about Latin America from the 16th Century to the present, is filled with heroes and villains from Pizarro to Pancho Villa, is set in cities, plains and jungles from the Caribbean to Cape Horn...
Finer, a dynamic little man with flashing brown eyes behind scholarly horn-rimmed glasses, in a recent book, "TVA: Lessons for International Application," set forth his international reconstruction ideas, the substance of which was incorporated almost directly into the charter of the World Development Bank at the Breton Woods Conference...
...funny bone a workout, what with Mr. James Durante giving out raucous and riotons as a has-been actor making a come-back. Durante's real-life comeback gives his nostalgic character job much pathos and effect, along with his side-splitting humor. And with Young Man with a Horn Harry James tooting a mean tube, Gracie Allen going through the paces of her one-fingered piano comedy-classic, and Jose Iturbi doing some serious and dignified ivory-tickling, "Two Girls and A Sailor" has something of just about everything...