Word: bassed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with an uncontrollable fear. As the violins swept up in the frail music of a waltz, they all sat still as statues. Saxophone and trumpet made them run and jump. Then, when the musicians stopped, the monkeys shrilled, squealed, jabbered, in a frenzy of fantastic enthusiasm. At last the bass viol boomed; then all the little monkeys, blinking and peering, pushed their sad faces against the bars...
...young women along the corduroy boardwalk. Each of the young women was in some suitable disguise which was really almost no disguise at all. On foot, interspersed between the dangerously gaudy floats, more than 1,000 bandsmen walked, each making a noise on flute or horn or big bass drum. The citizens of Atlantic City stared and stared. The waves of the ocean thundered along a smooth beach and a wind made the flags snap. This was the Annual Atlantic City Beauty Pageant...
...Famed naturalist, sportsman, associate editor of Field & Stream. Many the good bass yarn (sea bass) has he written...
...Organgrinder on the same basis. Neither Ignace Paderewski nor an organ- grinder (with monkey) annoys the American Federation of Musicians. But the fact that the law makes no distinction between them is distressing, because it harms business. Representatives of the musicians' union point out that "saxophone strugglers, trombone contortionists, bass drummers and French horn oompahs" have been admitted into the U. S. as "artists," thereby flooding the market for musicians and reducing the wage minimum, much as was the case when steel laborers were imported from Europe in former years...
...Bass was born in Indiana, It was called his native home...