Word: plunger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highlight of the evening for me was Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton's coda on "Black and Tan Fantasy." Nanton's plunger trombone, although sometimes exploited for comic effect, is my favorite voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...
With Perkins gone, Henry Lamar is without the team's most powerful plunger, best ball-handler, and best passer from the fullback slot. Paul Garrity, who will move over from tailback to replace him, is about 15 pounds lighter, and has had a year less at Harvard, which makes a big difference in performing the fullback's complicated duties...
...Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande. A veteran plunger on his stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed no bets on canvases after the mid-19th Century's Edouard Manet, preferred art's more-than-three-(or even 50-) year-olds-In his colossal, correct...
...faculty has its orders, to take it easy on the poor lads. This mill goes on for weeks; every Friday the plunger squirts a package of little demons into 950 unsuspecting arms. And then guys start to faint, and instructors make with mercy...
...sure-fire scene describes a latrine orderly's dream, in which a fairy, using a plumber's plunger as a wand, summons Uncle Tom, Simon Legree and others from the privy. Sample gag: says a sniffing sergeant to a private, "Have you taken a bath lately?" Says the private, "Why, is one missing...