Word: trumpeteering
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...mastermind the change of command, an old soldier of fortune who had fought through Chicago's rowdiest journalistic wars slipped into town. Ruddy, trumpet-voiced Walter Howey, prototype of the managing editor in The Front Page, had temporarily dropped his regular chores (supervising Hearst's two Boston tabloids with one hand and the American Weekly with the other) to help raise the steam pressure in the Herald-American's boilers...
Ellington Special (Columbia, 8 sides). Previously unissued Ellingtonia from the 1932-38 period, when the Duke had Barney Bigard on clarinet, Cootie Williams on trumpet and a better band than he has now. Recording: fair...
...rate of two a year; in the process he virtually reduced the job to schedule-shuffling while he bossed the show from a city-room desk. What Campbell needed was somebody who could put up with him, and if need be, talk back to him. In long-suffering, trumpet-voiced "Aggie" Underwood he thought...
...trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega...
Eggs & Butter. Ontario's Government has been tooting its trumpet in the British Isles for years. In Ontario House files are dossiers on some 125,000 applicants who have signed up to go to Ontario; about 30 hopefuls a day are still coming in. Just last week, 35-year-old William Dent, a tailor who is tired of tailoring, and his 33-year-old wife applied. Said Dent: "We hear they want farm laborers out there and we thought it would be a wonderful chance for us. We don't expect anything like you see in the movies...