Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor's evening Star. Often infuriating because the glib reviewer seemed to know everything and to assume that his readers knew nothing, the articles were signed "Corno di Bassetto'' (basset horn- an old wind instrument now superseded by the clarinet). This week, publication of the collected Corno di Bassetto's Star pieces† reminded old (81) George Bernard Shaw's loyal public that he had served his hitch with the musical dead watch long, long...
...Clarinet: Theodore Jacobs '41, Robert J. Leslie '41, Warren T. Vaughn '41, R. P. Wollenberg...
...musicians swung into "Sugar Rose." Fats squealed with delight. "Git ready fo' de jam now!" The boys got ready, and went into a wild jumble of hot rhythm. A clarinet player popped up somewhere and made his instrument screech an improvised sing-song. Fats, his tremendous bulk bobbing in time, shouted hoarse encouragement to his boys. With a final, incomprehensible flourish by the saxes, the jammin' stopped. "Dose cats can take yo' socks right off yo' shoes," gasped Fats...
Ferdinand ("Freddie") Fisher, 34, was born and reared on a farm near Garnavillo, Iowa. His father, whom he still calls "the best butter maker in Iowa," wanted him to play the piano, compromised on a clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern...
...biting, fingernail biting, grinding teeth, clenching the jaws in sleep, thrusting the tongue against the teeth, lip biting, biting on the ear pieces of eyeglasses, biting paperclips, pencils, fountain pens; Occupational habits: thread-biting in sewing, pin-&-needle habit (dressmakers), holding nails in teeth, biting the tips of cigars, clarinet and tuba playing, holding cord between teeth; Miscellaneous habits which mark teeth characteristically include: pipe smoking, using.cigaret holder, chewing cigars, opening tops of bottles with teeth, cracking nuts, chewing bones (Dr. Ryan fondly gnaws the meat out of lobster shells), mouth breathing, thumb sucking, orange sucking...