Word: trumpeters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover has spoken, or, rather, written 'into the air.' His trumpet has given an uncertain sound, a mere ambiguous squeak. [Laughter...
Claude H. Foster of Cleveland, inventory promoter, manufacturer, called his new automobile horn in 1904 after the name of that golden trumpet by which the archangel will at some unknown date announce the dissolution of all things-Gabriel's horn. Gabriel Manufacturing Co. prospered, expanded, invented a snubber to tame the jouncings of springs on automobiles. Gabriel snubbers rivalled Gabriel's horn in fame. Since 1925 when Gabriel Manufacturing was listed on the New York Stock Exchange "Snubber" has been cried in stock brokers' customers' rooms, when the ticker recorded a transaction in Gabriel stock...
Naturally Monsignor Seipel, Chancellor of Austria did not trumpet his proposal, last week, like a blatant babbitt. The Chancellor is by nature as silent as a turtle. Quietly he slipped off to Prague, Czechoslovak capital. There, last week, he conferred with Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes, best-posted diplomat in Europe. Dr. Benes is known to favor moving the League war-extinguisher to a city near the inflammable Balkans. Presently close-lipped Chancellor Seipel said...
Donald Fay Robinson, young Harvard poet, presents a short collection of extravagant naivetes with, now and then, a youthful trumpet ful of sophistication. The book contains about forty poems dating from 1914 and the pre-college days of the poet. Among them can be seen the fragile pattern of a young man's philosophy...
Mysteriously appearing from beneath the stage, the jazz orchestra leader stands on his unseen pedestal, raises his baton. To the elfing ripple of piano, the squeal of clarinet, the deep-throated protest of the bass saxaphone, and the triumphant laughter of the trumpet, the great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college...