Word: trumpeted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish Ballet, trumpet-tongued, arrived. Paris had been talking about them?especially about the second of their four pieces, entitled The Newlyweds on the Eiffel Tower by Jean Cocteau...
Laying down his cigar Mr. Lloyd George arose. Standing with his pince-nez poised in his left hand and describing himself as a " plain Euro-pean," the ex-Premier said he was a very old journalist-once he was associated with The Trumpet of Freedom, which had a circulation of 500 a week, " except on fair-days, when it reached 1,000." He went on to give thanks for his splendid welcome, stating that " no Britisher talks of Americans as foreigners " and that " the real founder of the British Empire as we know it was George Washington." He then outlined...
...splendid sort of person, a big, cordial fellow, who, raised on a farm, fell in love with music in his boyhood through the medium of a cornet, and who admits that, through all his years of distinguished success, he has never lost his early flame for the little keyed trumpet...
...What's the use of studying History anyway?" the modern skeptic is apt to declare, particularly if the impressions of his school days are fresh in his mind, and if he has had an over-dose of the "drum-and-trumpet" brand of History or of the genealogical and chronological table variety. "History is just a chaos of inconsequential facts", he is likely to add, "not the thousandth part of which is worth remembering. History has no laws that can be deduced from this welter of facts and applied for practical purposes, unless it be for a few vague generalizations...
...very short time into a propaganda bureau with the sole object of keeping the defending party in and the besieging party put. It probably would not even be successful, to that extent. Actions speak louder than words. If an Administration has been successful, "virtues will plead like angels trumpet-tongued". And conversely, if its wares are worthless, no amount of salesmanship will be effective in dumping them on the community...