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Word: trumpeting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want a musician to beat on a drum, Or a trumpet ta toot, or a banjo to strum, You can't do a single thing 'til you hear from Petrillo. Petrillo. Petrillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Bah! from the Pooh-bah | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...chiefly at fault, for it not only failed to produce the distinctive Elizabethan musical flavor captured by William Walton, for example, in the cinematic Henry V, but it was in addition so poorly adapted to the play that dozens of lines were lost under the blast of a trumpet or the wheeze of the organ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/9/1946 | See Source »

...Star Show (Sun. 3 pm., CBS). Ninety minutes of comedy, music and drama to trumpet coming fall programs; Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Sep. 23, 1946 | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Second Generation. Most of George Washington Hill's success was due to the whopping sums he spent to trumpet his products ($20,000,000 in one year alone). He was socially retiring, lived in quiet retreat on his Hudson Valley estate in Irvington, N.Y., where he kept Japanese deer, black & white swans and two dachshunds (Mr. Lucky and Mrs. Strike). But in his ads he was loud. He insisted on catchy slogans, exaggeration and repetition, tapped the untouched women's cigaret market with "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: End of a Legend | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...inducement to otherwise unoccupied trumpet tooters the Band advertises that athletic credits will be given to he who spends his time playing the arrangements (also exclusive) under the direction of Malcolm Holmes. Of course, choice grandstand seats also act as lures to the bandsmen. First tryouts will be held Tuesday evening in the Paine Music Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thumping Loudly, University Band's Drum Will Again Be on Field Between Halves | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

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