Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ladder." With this exhortation last week Conductor Arturo Toscanini rehearsed his Philharmonic-Symphony players through the great C Minor Symphony of Johannes Brahms. Tenderly, painstakingly, he molded every phrase and his men, as one, obeyed him. Magnificently he soared through the concluding chorale and even the stodgiest horn-player seemed to find the wings with which to follow. Then the little Italian called a pause, ate a bowl of soup with a raw egg in it before going on with the preparation of his first Manhattan concert of the season...
...Formerly the "Deer Park" where Hohenzollerns hunted with hound and horn in the middle of continental Europe's largest city. Today the Tiergarten is a public park but still bushy and foresty, though crisscrossed by immaculate, grass-bordered avenues...
...three chief occasions for punishment were, in those days, absence from classes, noisy disorder (usually horn blowing), and riotous outbreaks which were often accompanied by drunkeness and the wanton destruction of property...
...horn blowing (usually on a conch shell) had almost passed into the limbo of forgotten things when an unusual event served to resurrect it temporarily. On July 4 about 100 students journeyed to St. Johnsbury to participate in a celebration there. They were so noisy on the train and in the town, where they stopped a congressman's speech with boos and ridicule, that the faculty began an investigation. The whole student body took up the protest on the night of July 12 and for four hours pandemonium reigned. Horns were blown continuously, windows were broken and furniture was smashed...
Full-page photographs of the "camera study" type gave effective close-ups of a locomotive's cylinders spewing steam, of the sousaphone ("oom-pah") horn player at the county fair...