Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Franklin Thomson commutes from Greenwich, Conn, to the advertising office of Calkins & Holden in Manhattan. He is married, has a grown son, wears horn-rimmed spectacles for reading. Onetime editor of St. Nicholas magazine, he has literary talent and writes occasional verse...
...would gain a powerful friend in the Far East, and would in effect double the strength of our Fleet." Japan likes the U. S. very much. Japan admires nearly everything about the U. S., from baseball to horn-rimmed glasses. Ja pan leaps like a hungry carp at every crumb of friendship the U. S. tosses onto the Pacific. When the President decided to send the ashes of Ambassador Saito home to Japan in the U. S. S. Astoria last year, Japanese almost buried Ambassador Grew's home in presents. It took only a few days, last week...
Last week four union men, war veterans all, showed up for auditions in a Philadelphia armory. There was no audition; the job was in the bag for Charles Lamasch, a veteran who played French horn in the Spanish-American...
...heavy-footed drivers as young Rex Mays, who earned the favored pole position with his top qualifying speed; Kelly Petillo, only other onetime winner (1935); 44-year-old Cliff Bergere, Hollywood stunt man who finished in the money seven times in twelve starts; Mauri Rose, 1936 national champion; Ted Horn, among the first five for the past four years; and Joel Thorne, daredevil New York millionaire who placed seventh a year...
...break the monotony-the race began to get exciting. Shaw, who had been leading the field, stopped at his pit for new tires and a tank-load of fuel (alcohol). When he returned to the track two-and-a-half minutes later, he found Rex Mays, Mauri Rose, Ted Horn and Joel Thorne ahead of him. For 60 miles he chased them. As they momentarily dropped out, one by one, for refueling, Shaw whizzed ahead, gained a one-lap lead on Mays...