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Word: cornets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy McPartland has brought his cornet out of the west (by way of Europe and Canada) and overnight the Rathskeller band is as Chicagoan as the Outer Drive...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: JAZZ | 11/14/1950 | See Source »

...their practice jam sessions down on Coolidge Hill Road behind Stillman Infirmary at the home of Charles H. Taylor, professor of History. And they had a cornetist sitting in with the band whose playing Walter H. Gifford, Jr. '52, drummer and manager of the group, describes as a "mean cornet a la Max Kaminsky." The horn-player's name was Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of Harvard College...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Stompers Have Brought Basin Street to College | 10/11/1950 | See Source »

...days, when crying Haro was more frequent (Tom's is only the eighth clameur to be raised since 1900), the penalty for losing a case was severe: 24 hours' confinement in the lowest dungeon of 14th Century Castle Cornet. The penalty nowadays is only a small fine. Twenty years ago, Alfred Machon was fined one shilling for a false clameur (TIME, March 3,1930). As Tom's case rested last week, however, the gloomier greybeards of Guernsey noted with interest that workmen were busy restoring the old castle's long-neglected dungeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stopped Proper | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...monomania of a jazz perfectionist. The film makes the hero (Kirk Douglas) largely the victim of a bad woman (Lauren Bacall). He is saved by the love of a good one (Doris Day) in time for a happy ending that is as off-key as a leaky cornet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 27, 1950 | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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