Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This may sound as though we're blowing our own horn but we would just like to point out to the 44th that you have to grin & bear...
...went through but their turn never came. To protests the War Department said: so sorry (taking no chances on one of them blowing up in a lock), but the Canal was undergoing repairs. Finally the Japanese freighters gave up, plowed south on the 19,000-mile voyage around Cape Horn...
Sergeant York does not glorify war, does not try to horn in on the U.S. and World War II. It stays scrupulously within the bounds of one man's part in another war. But by showing what he found in the U.S. worth fighting for, it becomes Hollywood's first solid contribution to national defense...
...Latin-American arena last week the U.S. fist smashed full into the Axis face. The sparring for the goods and good will of a continent was over. A Roosevelt proclamation made it total economic war. Some 1,800 firms and individuals in business from Rio Grande to Cape Horn were publicly declared to be Axis-owned or Axis-aiding, put on a blacklist. From now on none of these firms can receive U.S. goods. All their assets and credits in the U.S. are frozen...
...first novel by the brother of New Yorker Artist William Steig is the best story so far about hot jazz and the people who make it. Dorothy Baker's Young Man With a Horn showed tinny enthusiasm, a specious literary talent; Dale Curran's Piano in the 'Band had a warmer enthusiasm, less talent. But even Send Me Down leaves a long way to go. Its author has had some actual experience as a jazz musician, has knowledge and taste about the music, can do good reportage on the professional and erotic life of his colleagues. Beyond...