Word: trumpet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This film was the first strip of celluloid ever to be unfurled before a flame in the Paris Opera. At that occasion, the President of the Republic was on hand and a monstrous array of notables. Paris responded to the trumpet and has been flocking subsequently to the Opera to see about the Wolves...
Since the 17th Century, Science has recognized the phenomenon that enables people stone deaf to hear conversation if exceedingly loud repercussions occur at the same time. Utilizing this principle, Dr. Byron E. Eldred of Manhattan has invented an ear trumpet. His apparatus consists of a box which, attached to an electric socket, shouts into the ear a large noise, part click, part scream, part whir, not unlike that of an electric train. At a recent meeting of the New York Otological Society, Dr. Eldred presented his invention. The society was skeptical...
Next day, said the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate paper: ". . . Dean Pound's offer from the University of Wisconsin is a trumpet blast. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that undergraduates await Dean Pound's decision almost as eagerly as the Law Students. . . . Many of these undergraduates plan to enter the Law School themselves and there is, in part, a selfish interest. . . . Undergraduates join the men of the Law School in hoping that Dean Pound will choose scholarship as his portion...
...Unionists. The union of the three churches is to be consummated in Toronto on June 10. Each denomination is to hold a great and last conclave, each is to form a separate procession, converge upon a central point, march on as the United Church of Canada to the trumpet blaring and vocal rendition of Blessed Be the Tie That Binds...
...money was then deposited in a tall, trumpet-shaped vase in the temple," Professor Lake continued. "It tinkled through to the bottom and then returned to the money lenders' tables where it was again exchanged for Roman money, and the same fee again charged...