Word: piccoloed
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With every fiddler in New England clamoring for a chance to wrest the crown from champion Mellie Dunham, Bob Lampoon, honorary editor of the Lampoon, veteran piccolo player, has signified his willingness to match tunes with the Maine player. Bob claims to have over one hundred different pieces, where Mellie has only three or four, but the piccolo player declares that with a little practice he can become profficient in "Turkey in the Straw" and "Old Zip Coon" as well...
Freshmen and graduate students who play the clarinet, cornet, piccolo, and flute are especially needed. Instruments will be loaned to anyone upon application to the management...
...then explained that the Nihilist leaders had hired him to play his piccolo in their parade. Four dollars, he said, would buy his musical services but not his political principles, and he wanted the public to understand his feeling on the matter...
...leader of the Nihilists, announced that Bob Lampoon, the most famous member of the staff of the notorious Harvard comic, has broken all relations with the Republican Club of Harvard, for which he paraded in the G. O. P. torchlight parade on Thursday night. Both Bob and his celebrated piccolo will appear under the unique standard of the Nihilist nominee...
Pietro Mascagni, due to arrive in the U. S. in a few days, together with the score of his new opera, II Piccolo Marat, and a company of Italian singers (TIME, July 28) is not coming, after all. Something very unfortunate has undoubtedly occurred. Said Mascagni, according to a Budapest despatch: "I had a contract to go to New York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent...