Word: trumpets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...busy as a bridesmaid, preparing to marry off the Princess this month. Each one had his own job. Dr. William McKie, the organist at Westminster Abbey, had a special motet to compose for the ceremony. Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King's Musick, was working out three trumpet fanfares. Painters were sprucing up Buckingham Palace, which still showed the ravages of war. Electricians were studying ways & means to bathe The Mall with light on the great night...
Jack Smith Show (Fri. 7:15 p.m., CBS). Guest: trumpet-voiced Nightclub Songstress Nellie Lutcher...
...There was a trumpet player downstairs last year," muttered Scoutt, "whom we tried to isolate in PBH. After the snow fell we never really succeeded." Scoutt appeared a defeated man last night without will to resist, as he sadly admitted that arpeggios and corporate law make an indigestible mixture...
...titles (seven of which have appeared on movie marquees): Lost Horizon, The Phantom Filly, Home Sweet Homicide, To Have and to Hold, Junior Miss, Random Harvest, Lad: a Dog, Wuthering Heights, Steele of the Royal Mounted, The Border Trumpet...
...mastermind the change of command, an old soldier of fortune who had fought through Chicago's rowdiest journalistic wars slipped into town. Ruddy, trumpet-voiced Walter Howey, prototype of the managing editor in The Front Page, had temporarily dropped his regular chores (supervising Hearst's two Boston tabloids with one hand and the American Weekly with the other) to help raise the steam pressure in the Herald-American's boilers...