Word: trumpeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papal apartments being entrusted to their charge. . . . The religious privileges of the guards are very extensive. . . . The Swiss Guards are fully armed, and have to submit to a strict course of exercises and gymnastics. Football is zealously cultivated by them in the Cortile del Belvedere, and their trumpet corps is splendidly organized...
...Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...
...Trumpet Will Sound...
Reverently an official inserted a needle, adjusted the record on an oldtime gramophone. He turned it on. From the old trumpet came a little sound: that was probably the Bard clearing his throat. Then came his voice, dismally wailing: "Oojee Boojee! Oojee Boojee...
...Later, because you understood one word of Chinese yet were utterly incapable of reading the language, you became a convenient trumpet for your Russian master, Borodin, who had you appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs [in 1926]. When Borodin was exiled you followed to Moscow...