Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trumpeters, horn-blowers, drummers, and men who play percussion instruments are wanted. There will also be a competition for drum major in the near future...
...usual election-night whoops & hollers from the Atlanta headquarters of old vote-gettin' Eugene Talmadge were strangely absent. Ol' Gene sat glumly by the radio, staring suspiciously through his horn-rimmed glasses at the voice which told him his days as Georgia Governor were numbered. A news photographer entered, asked for a big smile in case the trend changed by the morning editions. Ol' Gene snapped: "Git yore pictures and hurry...
...doubt about it, Harry James has put the trumpet back 30 years. Not for nothing did Louis Armstrong show musicians what could be done with a trumpet. Instead of a blaring, brassy, emotionless instrument, Louis made it a warm, passionate voice. James can still play a hot horn; he turns out an occasional good chorus. But he has added fiddles, written his own lush and senseless orchestrations, and become the number one band of the nation. Well, buy Harry's new record of "I Cried For You" and dance to it, but you won't enjoy listening to it three...
Until this year, the school was composed, or reputed to be composed, mainly of "derelict prep school boys, old-maid school teachers and horn-rimmed grad students." But after December 7, most Harvard undergraduates decided to give up tennis flannels or camp counselling for studies, and the girls came along...
...Grand Canyon and Dr. Reinhardt." Mrs. Reinhardt this year celebrated Mills's goth anniversary and her 26th as its president by announcing her retirement. Mills's alarmed trustees prevailed on her to stay at least until 1943-A native San Franciscan (her father sailed around the Horn and her mother arrived from Ohio on horseback), Mrs. Reinhardt took over Mills as a young widow with two small boys, raised it from a dowdy finishing school to a western Vassar. Its students run their own affairs, are allowed to stay out until 2:30 a.m. and are Stanford...