Word: cornets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hobo that Handy began the musical career that has earned him mention in the Encyclopaedia Britannica for his fathering of the blues. He was the son of a Baptist preacher who considered it disgraceful to be a musician. Young Handy liked nothing so much as his battered cornet or a bit of close harmony with the boys on the street. When they heard of the World's Fair of 1893, four of them organized a quartet, hopped a freight to Chicago. There they remained jobless, finally had to work their way back South. But Handy's ambition persisted...
...rings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone and he is leaning back in his chair playing his cornet. What is he playing? Well, I've called the picture I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls." The name of the piece is the only thing not made explicitly clear in the picture...
...dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible speed...
...costume of an Argentine cowboy, there are sober extras in the middle of a three-day cruise, there are finger print experts smearing powder on beige telephones, there are twenty-eight kisses, and a corpse. One reacts, of course, to the ingenuity of the "howler," somehow reminiscent of that cornet next door. But aside from this, no Kerr is spared in soothing the patronage...
...Seattle appeared this newspaper want-ad: "Neighbors hostile. Will trade silver cornet for revolver, automatic pistol or shotgun...