Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germanic Museum has announced a program of music for organ and strings to be given tonight in the main hall by E. Power Biggs and members of the Stradivarius Quartet.. Opening the program is a group of English organ solos by William Byrd. John Bull, Purcell. William Walond, organist at Oxford in the eighteenth century, and John Stanley, the famous blind organist at the Temple during the same century. Byrd's Pavan for the Earl of Salisbury was commonly played on the virginals, and Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary and Trumpet Airs on the harpsichord. But since at that time...
Kentucky Hillbilly Jesse Stuart (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, Trees of Heaven) is something of a Professional American. It shows in his tendency to machine-gun a page with overlabored dialect, and to indulge a special fondness for plants, farming terms and place names. It is an unlucky affectation for a young writer. But even if he never gets rid of it, Jesse Stuart has body and vigor enough to carry...
...nearby irrigation canal. When priests at a Catholic boarding school in Kansas tried to get him to draw saints and madonnas, he ran away to San Francisco to study, went on to Paris, where he worked under famed Sculptor Auguste Rodin. Back in the U. S. he bounded with bull-like energy into a mixed career of sculpture, politics, talk and tantrums, got himself elected to the Connecticut Assembly, Bull-Moosed for Theodore Roosevelt, was named investigator of U. S. airplane production by Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Irascible and outspoken, stocky Gutzon Borglum backed up his political opinions...
...Europe and his manager, Noble Sissle (Shuffle Along), joined the 15th Regiment. The colonel made Europe band leader, raised $10,000 for instruments -30 reeds, a dozen or so brasses, two bull fiddles (for concerts). Leader Europe became a lieutenant, Sissle his drum major and top sergeant. The two of them were soon putting riffs in conventional marches, had the band blare blues to a fare-thee-well. When the 15th reached France, Europe's band was detailed to play for U. S. soldiers just back from the front lines...
Their magnificent, subtly curved horns spread eight and nine feet tip to tip, and they were such sky-hardened athletes it was said you could pack all the roasting meat of any one of them into the hollow of one of those horns. A Longhorn bull was known to gore the life out of a grizzly; another scattered a U. S. regiment that had stood against Santa Anna. James Bowie used to ride amongst them, knifing them down...