Word: horning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeing things die." He still rambles off on safaris, photographing the big game and potting birds for dinner. (His barstool story is that his white hunter imitates a lovelorn female rhino, and when a nearsighted male rumbles toward the sound, Ruark hangs his hat on the beast's horn and the hunter slaps a Ritz Hotel sticker on its behind.) Ruark will spend the next few months "doing all of Africa" for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, because "I have a hunch that 99 million natives are going to make noise in the Union around Christmas, and I want...
...Veneto. Another Di Nozzi inspiration was the ivory telephones that Café de Paris waiters plug in at the tables. This won the Café de Paris the patronage of many of Rome's ubiquitous movie agents, one of whom cheerily explained: "I can get on the horn there if I want...
Church bells rang ten times. Two motorcycles roared. Someone honked an automobile horn. Gently, the sound of a violin concerto came through Gene's window...
...Horn of Plenty. In the midst of Britain's increasing credit squeeze, Jasper's supply of money seemed endless. It turned out that recently most of the cash came from the State Building Society, a publicly owned savings-and-loan association supported by small depositors and designed to help people buy their own homes. Its motto: The Horn of Plenty. The horn was easily tapped by Jasper & Co. through Grunwald, who was also a lawyer representing State Building; he arranged for the Society to lend to Jasper on mortgages. All told, it lent Jasper $21.2 million...
There is no plot to speak of. The songs are derivative, and the star is a talking 1960 model automobile without driver that revs its engine and blows its horn at the sight of a pretty girl. The show has all the aroma of an hour-and-a-quarter commercial. In fact, that is precisely what it is. But by the time it finishes its 48-day, eight-city, coast-to-coast tour next month, Buick '60, Buick's slick, sales-gimmick musical, will have run up a road record that few Broadway hits can approach: almost every...