Word: toot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whiffenpoofs of 1950 are great. For about 15 minutes last Friday night they proved this at the annual Harvard-Yale Glee Club Concert in New Haven. Zipping through such songs as "Toot Toot Tootsic," "Saloon," "Baby Sister Blues," and "Crusin' Around," they brought life to an otherwise ordinary concert with their relaxed, informal, and technically fine style...
After rallying and setting off on an entertainment tour of veterans hospitals--an opportunity to dub in "Sonny Boy" and "Toot-Toot-Tootsie" (among others) on the sound track--Jolson collapses again. Miss Hale, of course, appears at his bedside. Her lines are poor--she too has to spend her time telling Jolson to relax--but her performance is enough to make her a leading candidate for the worst actress of the year. Unfortunately she stays around to marry Jolson and manage his life...
Twenty years ago a squib on the radio page of the old New York Evening World noted that "the story of a cloak-and-suit operator's climb from a dingy tenement to Park Avenue will be dramatized in the Rise of the Goldbergs . . ." With that feeble trumpet toot, the Goldberg family was off on a career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show...
...Make an Opera) Crozier had freely adapted his comic libretto from Guy de Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even so, some found Albert's humor, at least in Tanglewood...
...their stately, rambling hacienda house, ringed by a 15-foot brick-and-adobe wall, servants rush out at the toot of a horn to open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...