Word: tooter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a calculating and untroubled eye. He had come to conquer. He got a job with a harness firm; eight years later he bought the owners out. He was elected to the city council, picked up a nickname, "The Red Snapper," and was known as a "real ring-tailed tooter" at either a fight or a frolic...
...mayor. It was a rough, wild-eyed campaign. The ring-tailed tooter tooted against the "interlocking, circling, double-back, double-crossing interests." When thugs charged his meetings, he and the boys battled back. He was elected by 79 votes. From that day on he was the boss of Memphis...
...time the press discovered him last week, Pfc. Chester J. ("The Stomach") Salvatori, a horn-tooter in an itinerant Army band, had landed in the Fort McPherson Post Hospital; he had been under observation there for a month. Hospital Commandant Colonel Burgh S. Burnett had an old-fashioned diagnosis: there was nothing abnormal about Salvatori's metabolism - it was really only his ego that needed nourishment. "He is an exhibitionist who puts on this eating show for the benefit of fellow soldiers." The Army had him eat alone, restricted his caloric intake...
This trumpet-tooter is Romy Gosz (pronounced gauze), self-styled "Polka King." He is pictured serenading three newly married couples at a Bluestone Park, Wis. dance last week as 1,357 polka-addicts look on. The week was nothing special for brash, 36-year-old Romy Gosz, who has made some 35 records for Columbia and Decca, and turned down various offers from bigtime bands. He prefers to stick with his own six-piece group ("five men and one musician") and his regular circuit of small Wisconsin towns. Six nights a week he plays hot, fast and loud for dances...
Betty Grable, seven-week bride of Trumpet-Tooter Harry James, announced she would retire for a while because she is going to have a baby next spring...