Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene demands that the spectator love the Jamesian trumpet as St. Francis loved the birds. (Harry's rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee makes the old-fashioned trumpet solo sound like a first lesson in occupational therapy.) But once the maestro parks his horn and takes the floor with bouncing, pint-sized Nancy Walker for a comedy dance which is the high point of the whole proceedings...
Slightly under middle height, built thickly and compactly, Turkey's Prime Minister at 55 is quick-moving, intense, with direct brown eyes in a full-fleshed, dark, mobile face set off with a small, grey mustache, horn-rimmed glasses and insufficient salt & pepper hair. He likes his fun and has it, drinks a wide variety of liquors, from national raki to good Scotch whiskey, but is more moderate now than in his younger days. He is still spry in friendly company, often takes to the dance floor to perform the Sarizeybek, a finger-snapping, foot-stomping Izmir mountain dance...
...clear, direct prose, with emphasis on a photographic clarity of detail. People, the objects in the professor's house and Ray's room, gestures appear with something of the shadowless quality of the paintings of Charles Sheeler. A promising second novel (her first: Young Man with a Horn-TIME, June 6, 1938), it is a good enough discussion of its subject to give readers reason to hope that Author Baker will write better ones...
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...actuality, 43-year-old Lara takes a rather objective view of women. He divorced his wife a decade ago and has since lived alone in a luxurious rented house in Mexico City's suburb of Chapultepec. He affects Byronic collars, horn rimmed harlequin spectacles, and usually looks fatigued. He is proud of a sumptuous gold hand-carved wrist watch given him last New Year's by President Avila Camacho. Its twin was presented to President Roosevelt...