Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opened a big ledger and put on a pair of thick, horn-rimmed glasses. "Young man, you must know firstly that this one meagre contribution protects you from the appeals of every local and national charity, including the greater Boston Community Fund, but that last year this contribution amounted to only 25 cents per undergraduate." Vag thought of beautiful House dining halls, and rich meals, and he sighed in sympathy. "The employees of this great university, the maids and biddies and watchmen, contributed $4650 last year to the community fund, but undergraduates gave only $2200." Vag shuddered at that forbidding...
Whether "Young Man With a Horn" and "Send Mc Down" had succeeded or not in presenting the average reader with a just interpretation and evaluation of jazz, they undoubtedly awakened in many a soupeon or two of curiosity about the music which gave each book its background, just as "The Grapes of Wrath" evoked a nation-wide sigh of sympathy for the Okies. But neither novel contained enough purple passages to inspire anyone to tear around to the nearest music store and buy up all the Louis Armstrong records on the shelves...
...years ago Vinton Freedley meddled with such an idea when he tried to dramatize "Young Man With a Horn" starring Burgess Meredith. Eddie Condon and various other top-ranking men were actually signed up, but after a few weeks the pristine enthusiasm over the idea faded and no more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...September 1940, when as an America Firster General Wood first wound his horn against U.S. interference in foreigners' affairs, he had every reason to believe that he was embarking on a popular and respectable crusade...
...Harvard Freshman's love-life moves by stages. First comes Radcliffe, a sort of practice era during which he learns about Boston's subway system and horn-rimmed glasses. A bit of advice: go through this stage on the q.t. without boasting of your conquests. You may not be so proud of them in years to come...