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Word: cornet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn mustachios and elegantly grasping a white kid glove and a pint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: British Academy | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...stage revue, "Stardust Revue of 1937" introduces a number of starlets under the tutelage of Benny Davis. Among the many acts are several tap dancers, a pair of comedians, a baritone some roller skaters, and a cornet player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

...peace of the countryside portrayed, a peace that seems to biot out even the final tragedy. The finest shot in the picture is of a flock of hens, silhouetted against the sky. The best music is that played by a peasant orchestra at a festival, with a liquid cornet carrying the melody. It is such things that make "The Mystic Mountain" worth the trip to the Fine Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

...Bassett, Iowa, Farmer Jacob Zimmer, 63, and his son Donald, 23, married Sisters Grace & Dorothy Tripp. Crowed Bridegroom Jacob: "Donald's always liked farmin' like me and he likes music, too-plays the cornet and the tuba both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

College, he plans to teach music when he graduates next spring. On trips like last week's he carries two cases-one for track clothes, one for his cornet. Doctors are interested in his slow pulse-44 at rest, 60 after mild exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Between Halves | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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