Word: piccolo
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Fulton of Oak Falls does nothing to soften the fact that Mr. Cohan's delivery is a nasal, almost snarling monotone which is the epitome of Broadway and has no more modulation than a piccolo rendition of Yankee Doodle, or that his famed chuckle derives much of its effect from its irrelevance to the context. Ed Fulton likes lilacs and Tennyson's poetry, wants his family to be happy. His daughter is unhappy because she is treated like a child, and because her sweetheart's father is an old enemy of Ed Fulton's. When...
...American," he said once, "I naturally spend most of my time laugh-ing." And his brilliance, like that of his fellow-iconoclast, Bernard Shaw, has not always done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects have roused more laughter than thought. Since retiring from the editorship of the American Mercury, Mencken has brought out several treatises in soberer vein. His biggest opus, first published in the brave days of 1919, last week reappeared in a guise so transfigured that it was almost unrecognizable...
...Philadelphia's Democratic machine. He was picked by J. David Stern, publisher of the Philadelphia Record, and other ardent New Dealers for the job of putting Democrats on the Philadelphia map. Athlete Kelly promptly kicked out the machine Democrats who, by grace of Boss Vare, had for years played piccolo in Philadelphia's political orchestra. Today City Boss Kelly can and has told State Boss Guffey what he would and would not permit. This week he is running for Mayor on the platform of a 5¢ fare (in place of 7½¢ tokens), WPA money to rebuild Philadelphia's slums...
...strings droned and woodwinds sighed. The audience instantly caught her mood and hated the old father-in-law, introduced by strident horns and a mocking xylophone. The husband first piped in a silly high tenor while the orchestra beat out a double-quick waltz in which even a piccolo sneered...
...music "was in a sort of whole tone scale with a lot of overtones." He adopted certain rhythms like the poundings of hydraulic presses, used them as contrapuntal accompaniments to string and woodwind melodies. The factory whistle gave him trouble until he found he could reproduce it by a piccolo, clarinet, oboe and tuba chord...