Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frontier Life. In Mankota, Sask., a steer in a cattle car poked a horn through the car's slats, caught up a switch lamp en route, baffled the engineer by swinging red and green signals all the way to Moose...
Eventually, however, he made it. He played his horn in Paris nightclubs, joined the first jazz band ever to play in Ger. many (their audiences included brass hats in the Army of Occupation at Coblenz). Back in Paris, Hiler was manager, host, musician and barman at the famed Jockey, Left Bank hot spot owned by Jockey Milton Henry's wealthy widow. One night in her cups Proprietress Henry ejected a Negro who proved to be a Senegalese prince and member of the Chamber of Deputies. Next day the Jockey was padlocked. Hiler reopened it, invited every Negro in Paris...
...Vincent and AI Goates missed Saturday evening moss. They were already "out" for the evening ... Joe Flaig finally broko into Wellesley ... In a nice way of course ... Jack Perlman reports that there is absolutely no truth in the rumors heard about the food in Harvard Union ... Mike J. Horn enjoyed Dorris Dox's party last Saturday evening out in Dorchester. It was a rail trip to got there, but Mike reports the expedition will worth while ... Anything that happened to his company's personnel at the Regimental Hall last week this column knows nothing about and is not responsible...
...Bach. The Requiem is expressive in a manner peculiar to Brahms, and all its beauty and emotional intensity was seen in a few scattered passages of the performance, such as the solos by Miss Marjorie Rice and Paul Tibbetts. But in general the effect was tiring. The orchestra's horn section, at times the flute section, the apparent weakness of the vocalists when the better than average soprano section was silent, were all too prominent. Besides, the endlessly changing stream of conductors, even during the Requiem, was overdone. I for one, came to see a concert. Let's keep three...
...instrument to his mouth. For Tabuteau, it begins in his medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...