Word: piccolo
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...Piccolo...
This conformed to the political pattern by which Petrillo has always governed and maintained authority within the union. Of the A.F.M.'s 215,000 members, only 80,000 are full-time musicians. By cultivating the tavern pianist, the burlesque-show drummer, the small-town clerk who plays a piccolo, Petrillo insures himself a long and presumably happy reign...
Last week Muggsy closed his baggy eyes and rolled around low in Royal Garden Blues, with the sharp, brittle staccato that identifies all "Chicago brass." (Once when a name bandleader asked him to play high, Muggsy growled: "Aw, go get a piccolo player.") Explained one jazz fan: "Muggsy's from the South Side. He plays best at home...
...wreaths on graves. An American visitor was told in 1927: "The most wonderful thing about Mussolini is his loyalty to his King." The words were spoken by King Victor Emmanuel III; by that time a lot of Italians would have disagreed. When Il Duce declared war against Ethiopia, il piccolo swiftly calculated: "If we win I shall be King of Abyssinia; if we lose, I shall be King of Italy...
...complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain wooden coffin tied on top for il piccolo...