Word: trumpeters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentinel that sleepeth not. Without you we should now and then be forgetting such great men as Leonard Wood, who serve our country but have no time to trumpet themselves. Hurrah for the full page you gave to Leonard (TIME, April...
...problems are not easy. The obstacles placed by selfish and corrupt influences do not disappear with the blast of a trumpet. The ordinary citizen is intent on his own business. He is hard to arouse and to keep aroused to the fact that good city government is good business and that the small favors he receives from political machines are dearly bought...
Paul Whiteman, expansive Lord High Conductor of U. S. jazz, last week repressed his exuberant instruments heroically. He calmed the mourning, muted trumpet, put brakes on the slide trombone, and made them all tell stories. One story was written by Deems Taylor, jazz-appreciating classicist ? the story of circus day in a one-cylinder town. The other story went deeper, or bravely tried to. It was by rhapsodic George Gershwin, to whom jazz comes as readily as a new suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark...
...challenge is clear. Last week the trumpet of daring was pressed to the lips of heroism and sounded a venture. In an airplane Captain George Hubert Wilkins will undertake next spring a direct passage from Point Barrow in Alaska over the Ice Pole to Spitzbergen?slightly less than 1,900 miles of Arctic. Vilhj�lmur Stefansson, veteran North rider, on whose last trip Captain Wilkins served as second in command, will devote himself to the details of preparation...
...except M. Tchitcherin the puffing of the express, as it got under way, seemed to trumpet a new hope for Europe. Ahead of the disappointed Russian there lie perhaps other travels. Seemingly checkmated in Western Europe, he may soon have to seek alliances in the East...