Word: cornets
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...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...
...muggle-smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro cornet player") was sentenced to jail for 30 days for taking poison when caught smoking a "reefer...