Word: trumpeters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that Italians were becoming anxious, last fortnight, over the signing of an accord between France and Jugoslavia in mid-November. If so great a Power as France was throwing her prestige upon the side of Italy's potential enemy, Jugoslavia, then it behooved Signor Mussolini to trumpet that Italy is unafraid and not unbefriended...
Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...
...duel went on: Let her discover his identity before daybreak if she would be released from the contract of her own making: Ruthlessly, murderously, she probed her investigation, but midnight and the warm beauty of the Palace Garden took the Unknown One's part, won her, led her to trumpet his name as Love to all Peking...
...Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash punctuating the tune of a familiar football song...
...huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone's. In wet clothes and a panic the minstrels scurried off. Squirrels. On the roof of a house in Canandaigua, N. Y., there stood a fat squirrel who looked like "Babe" Ruth...