Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isolationist Chicago Tribune, which loves Tom Dewey so much because it hates Franklin Roosevelt more, last week chided its Chosen Instrument. "We think Governor Dewey made a mistake when he accepted so large a part of the Roosevelt program.... He will regret these commitments; they will not win him any votes...
...concertgoers would know a contrabassoon if they saw one. But they might recognize a bassoon. Known in German as the Fagott, because of its resemblance to a slim bundle of sticks, the bassoon is the standard bass instrument of the "double reed" or oboe family. It has been known, in facetious circles, as an "ill woodwind that nobody blows good." The contrabassoon is a giant bassoon built to sound an octave lower than the standard bassoon...
When Sensale is not playing the contrabassoon he spends much of his time whittling the cigaret-shaped reeds of his 25-lb. instrument. He is interested in few extra-contrabassoon matters. Says he: "I would like better to be a playing contrabassoonist than a retired bassoonist...
Trippe is ready for the fight. Ever since he realized that his proposed "chosen instrument" policy for U.S. aviation was unpopular, he has been girding Pan Am for this battle. A month ago he politely fired the first gun in a rate war when he announced that Pan Am would spend $52 million to expand Latin American services, and slash passenger fares from 8½? a mile to 3½? a mile (TIME...
...Anesthetist of Mattoon, Ill. (pop. 17,500) is a tall, thin man who wears a black skullcap, and carries an instrument not unlike a Flit gun. He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...