Word: trumpeting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is in town and having been slighted by the social editor of the Transcript he is forced to blow his own trumpet. He is looking very well in his spectral way and is enjoying the health which only a vigorous summer close to nature can produce. Economic disaster directed the Vagabond's steps toward the farm where he patterned his life upon the teachings of Roussean and the Rural New Yorker...
...crowd of 70,000 waiting in the stadium, where the Olympic torch flared enormously against a dark sky, heard a trumpet blast as the first runner came into the chute for the finish. They recognized Zabala, tired but still running strongly. A hundred yards behind him was Samuel Ferris of England. Armas Toivonen of Finland and Wright were in the stadium also by the time Zabala, a small solemn figure jogging steadily through an uproar of cheers and trumpets, reached the finish. It was the closest marathon in Olympic history and the fastest?...
...York City. The council referred the Kaplan matter to President William C. Elliott of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employes who promised "special attention immediately." Then easy-going William Green, A. F. of L. president, came out with a public statement which, for him, sounded like a trumpet blast...
...always bounces out of the wings, a square, bullet-headed man, smooth shaven except for a tiny marceled patch where his fontanel was 30 years ago. He brandishes his trumpet. He gives a roguish grin. His eyes roll around in his head like white, three-penny marbles...
...head up to an amplifier. His June 13, 1932 natural voice is almost whisper-small. "Chinatown, My Chinatown, Chinatown, Chinatown. . . ." He rarely has more than a rough idea of the words. "All right, boys, I'll take the next, five bars." He throws back his head, raises his trumpet, bleats noisily but marvelously. He has struck 200 high C's in succession, ended on high F. He slides all around a tune as easily as if he were doing it on a saxophone. He triple-tongues it in a way that has earned him the reputation of being...