Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rebel knows enough music to play the piano and sing passably, but she has had to learn or invent a whole new vocabulary while spinning records for hep soldiers. Now a saxophone is always a "goldenrod," playing a trumpet is "scraping the ceiling," drums are "kettles" and violins are "angel music." When not talking about hot & sweet records, Rebel tries to strike a fine balance between sentiment and bathos, because "our purpose isn't to make them lonesome, it's to make them happy...
...inhabited world," and meaning, in effect, "all Christians under one roof." It is the movement, as one of its leaders put it, from "the Church-as-men-have-conceived-it toward the Church-as-God-intended-it." The ecumenical movement does not proceed like a crusade, with banners and trumpet calls. It has grown with the pace and persistence of natural things-quietly, slowly, following Knes of flow and least resistance, taking opposition points by envelopment rather than frontal assault...
Wild Bill Donovan blows his trumpet as hard as he can at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, with Edmund Hall on the clarinet and Gene Scroeder at the drums. Young Ralph Sutton's piano playing make for the best intermission in years...
Bobby Hackett on the cornet, Fraukile Newton on the trumpet, Vic Dickenson and J. C. Higgenbothan and their trombones, Geno Sedric on the clarinet, and the Crimson Stompers have donated their services for the program...
...Phat Diem aboard one of the principality's boats, flying the yellow & white papal standard, and manned by a crew of young huskies armed with new Tommy guns and wearing on their shoulders Le Huu Tu's own crest, a Chinese dragon coiled around a trumpet, surmounted by a star and a bishop...