Word: piccolos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Piccolo...
...serious side, Pierian's 19th century exploits were not quite as noteworthy. Its members were famed for their prowess with the pot much more than with the Piccolo. Minutes of many during this "primitive" period read: "The Sodality met, practised, liquored, and adjourned...
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...
...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...