Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boars & Lemonade. Hard on his heels, the Republicans' Earl Warren breezed into town followed by 6,000 whooping Republicans who had come down from Chicago in four special trains and twelve buses. Governor Dwight Green had the full treatment ready for Earl: a motorcade of 25 cars, a brass band, a platoon of state troopers, and aerial bombs. The grandstand was packed to overflowing. Warren spoke easily and informally-and for only 18 minutes. The crowd liked him fine...
...During dredging operations in the Delaware River, Army divers found the wreck of an English vessel sunk in 1750. Unable to raise the ship, the Army pumped most of its cargo through a suction pipe, spewing a mass of silt and 18th Century pewter plates, brass buttons, locks & keys, and silver shoe buckles on the riverbank...
...weeks, Bobby Hackett had been doing his own double-in-brass. He went through his routine studio chores with easy, sweet-playing confidence. Then he went to work downtown, playing the most melodic hot trumpet in the land. So far the pace was telling on neither the man nor his music...
Thirteen years later his William Tell loaded him with even more honors-and furnished brass bands with a perennial favorite for Sunday afternoon concerts. He was then 37, and had written 38 operas. But he never wrote another one. His nerves shaken from overwork, he wrote a friend that "music needs freshness . . . I am conscious of nothing but lassitude and crabbedness." He composed little, settled down in Paris to grow fat from his well-stocked wine cellar and his imported bolognas. When friends chided him for being lazy, Rossini replied: "I always had a passion for idleness...
...cutting a narrow trench 80 feet from the mill, Godfrey hopes to find traces of the "ambulatory walk" of the Norse church. Uncovered thus far: a 1696 King William III penny, a lead musket ball, an old brass button, a clay pipe...