Word: piccolo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though 450 I.R.A.s are in concentration camps and 153 serving prison sentences, the Saxons and the pro-Saxon Gaels had the devil's own job cutting the "pipeline" connecting Eire with Northern Ireland. Fortnight ago in Dublin they jailed (for seven years) piccolo-playing Anthony Deery, whose piccolo, the peelers found, was strangely mute, being stuffed with code-scribbled cigaret papers...
...Boss Petrillo told his men that they could walk through certain picket lines. Example: those thrown up by Manhattan teamsters, who last month demanded the right to carry musicians' instruments at $10 per piccolo per day, $20 per night (TIME, June...
...rehearsals, given public concerts. Only its conductor (George Dasch, of Northwestern University) is a professional musician. Its founder was bass-playing George Lytton, president of the Hub stores. Now an orchestra of 115 Chicagoans, 25 of its players are presidents or vice presidents of businesses. A doctor plays the piccolo, a dentist the trombone, a poultry farmer the trumpet, a onetime steel puddler the oboe. A waiting list of 200 eyes the orchestra hungrily : from the list, new players are chosen when members die or cut too many rehearsals...
...four rehearsals, Papa Stock put the businessmen through many a bad moment. He told the basses: "You sound like a bunch of old ladies." He bawled out Dr.J. Peerman Nesselrod for offside piccolo peeps. Thanks to Dr. Stock's business like drilling, in the orchestra's 20th-birthday concert the businessmen tackled Dvorak's New World Symphony and a sheaf of shorter pieces (including a Symphonic Waltz by Papa Stock) with a precision which other amateur groups could well envy...
...Brower is a piccolo-sized (140 lb.), tuba-voiced salesman who once dealt in dry goods in Omaha, now is an insurance broker in Shenandoah, Iowa. Three weeks ago Brower heard of a law* which requires the Government to advance premiums for two years (in the form of interest-bearing certificates) on life insurance up to $5,000 carried by National Guardsmen, volunteers and conscripts taken into the Army...