Word: blares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strict classifications of his strict and jealous calling Mystifier Dante is both a prestidigitator (he does sleight of hand) and an illusionist (he does tricks which require elaborate props to help the illusion). Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, transformed a tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious...
...rolled into Berlin in his special antiaircraft-guarded train, smiled at wildly celebrating crowds. Stepping onto the red-carpeted platform where Nazi bigwigs crowded to welcome him, he listened with frank delight to the metallic clamoring of bells, the roaring Heils of Hitler Youth and Hitler Maidens, the trumpeting blare of a Storm Troopers' brass band...
...slowly around the hall with its kaleidoscope of ever mingling colors and forms? . . . How could the slow, moving, billowy, syrupy music of the 'eighties fit into this new world picture? Youth had to construct its own rowdy modern music. ... So let Duke Ellington and his black boys blare and bleat and bawl with their saxophones and bull fiddles and muted trumpets syncopating the call of the wild. And it is all right. But it's the same old inner urge, the more we change the less we change...
Mademoiselle Paris, in private life Miss Andree Lorrain, stepped off the train into a barrage of cameras and the blare of Brown's swing band (which was almost wholly drowned out by the scream of steam escaping from the locomotive...