Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first turned up at the Cologne Carnival in 1935, called Du Kannst Nicht Treu Sein. Too brassy for smart dance orchestras (which have always stuck more to stickier tunes like Lili Marleen), village orchestras and brass bands blared it out, with a strong pair of lungs on the trumpet and a heavy hand on the drum. By the time the Germans invaded Poland, even the barrel organs had given...
Then entered Jeanette Wolff, a former governess whom her friends call "The Trumpet" because she has become one of Berlin's toughest, most vocal anti-Communist delegates. A resolution defying Sokolovsky's order was passed; but below, the mob was waiting for the "traitors." While Red army men and Russian policemen watched, Communist thugs closed in. They pounded the stomach and back of Socialist Otto Bach until he had a hemorrhage. Said Jeanette, who had been put in a concentration camp by the Nazis for being Jewish: "They are mad. This is 1933 all over again...
...perpetrators of the latest threat to the nation's sanity are two Hollywood radio musicians-Pianist George Tibbies and Guitarist Ramey Idriss. Starting with the laugh-to the tune of the trumpet call used to round up musicians at rehearsals-they batted out both tune and lyrics in half an hour. They sang it over the phone to Producer Walter Lantz, whose animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies...
...Edinburgh, Knox cried: "The preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...
...George Eiferman, 22, an awesome mass of sun-cured muscle, won the A.A.U.'s annual "Mr. America" contest in Los Angeles' Shrine Civic Auditorium. The judges thought Eiferman, an ex-Navy man and trumpet player, had a better build than twelve other bubble-biceped youths. Height: 5 ft. 9 in.; weight: 197 lbs.; chest: normal 47½ in., expanded 50 in.; waist: 30½ in.; biceps...