Word: horning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...equipment, facts about the terrain, everything that needs to be known before the start of a combat). Head of Eisenhower's smooth-working Intelligence is Brigadier Kenneth W. D. Strong, at 43 one of the British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers of his regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers; he has been accused of wearing plaid pajamas. His deputy...
Three days before the strike was to begin, Daggert went to Superintendent Robert Wilson, asked him to blow the quitting horn 30 minutes early. The men & women, their overalls soggy with sweat, hurried out of the sheds into the blazing sun. Daggert climbed on top a huge buoy he had been welding, stuttered a bit, then began booming in the voice he had used to referee many a Philadelphia fight...
...crowds roared, Mickey Sullivan dribbled over his chin, the publicity men rubbed their hands, and the show stank. O.K., O.K., So you never saw a Poon-pic. Well, there were, and nobody that wasn't anybody ever tried to horn in. We've always worked through nice people, well, like Ann Sheridan, or Marjorie Woodworth...
...Wind Remains." This device consists of a piece of wood, strung with violin strings, but lacking the sound-box. The vibrations of the strings are electrically amplified through a loudspeaker system, producing a very full tone. Bowles' composition featured several other unusual instruments--Chinese gong, temple blocks, chimes, auto horn, and a milk bottle tapped with a key, but unlike many experiments in exotic instrumentation, contained a lot of sincere writing...
...soloist and conductor changed places after the intermission for the performance of the Piano Concerto in G. major (K, 453), which Goldovsky performed with delicacy and restraint, although it seemed to me that the orchestra at times tended to drown out the soloist, and the horn due muffed each of their sole entrances...