Word: toot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a tweet, a toot, and an occasional twitter, the New York Wood-wind Quintet will give the second and last of the Holmes Hall Concerts this Sunday at 8 p.m. Included in the program are Beethoven's Quintet in E Flat, Opus 71a and Mozart's Divertimento Number Three...
...afterburner going full blast. The F-100 can fly and fight effectively at 50,000 ft. (10,000 ft. higher than the F-86), and packs an array of 2.75-in. rockets and radar-sighted 20-mm. cannon which fire so fast a burst sounds like the high toot of a diesel locomotive. Cost of an F-100: $640,000, nearly three times more than...
...this odd instrument. At nights aboard the Helena, Pride's staff gathers in the wardroom for informal musical sessions, with the ship's paymaster banging out tunes on the spinet in the key of C (which is the only one he knows) while other musical officers toot away on harmonicas...
...Boston Globe wrote: "Holmes was the man who brought the Harvard Band from nothing to where it now is. He was the envy of more than one football coach at Harvard. They always wondered how he produced the technical skill, and, more important, the clean which distinguished the Harvard toot ensemble. . . It takes something extraordinary. . . It takes something extraordinary to inspire college undergraduates these days. It takes something special to get off a death bed and bring down the house as an after-dinner speaker (at a band banquet) with a talk on the Decline and Fall of the Glockenspiel...
...characteristic of a restraint in the College which is at once a part of the Harvard tradition and the settling effect of the graduate schools. The integration of the two has given the undergraduate a pride in his tolerance of partisan demonstrations, but his dislike for joining up to toot the proverbial horn. He prefers the wait and see attitude...