Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this afternoon when you cheer the blend of fife and tuba that is "Wintergreen," look for a moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...
...provided by far the best entertainment of the afternoon with a post-intermission selection of beer music in true Austrian style, fairly bringing down the house. Known otherwise as "The Hungry Five," these gentlemen sported the thickest of gutterel accents, the nattiest of knee-length stockings, and a monstrous tuba that was seven feet tall if it was an inch, grinding out such old favorites as "If You Knew Brunnhilde Like I Know Brunnhilde" ("wow--wow--wow what a frau") and Becthoven's 10th Symphony which smacked suspiciously of "Roll Out the Barrel." Fifteen minutes of slapstick were never more...
Early Years. He was brought up in Owosso (pop. 8,000), where he had a perfect attendance record at school, played football and tootled the tuba in the school band. His parents were strict: they once forbade him to use his tricycle for a whole year because he had hurt himself in a fall. In his spare time, he sang in the Episcopal choir, managed a magazine route, worked in his father's print shop. One summer he spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World...
...climbed in The tuba of Serafim And the result Of this merger Was that the tuba went Pum pum pum-meow...
Hanging three deep on the sides of streetcars, celebrators sang "Pum pum pum" and the motorman punctuated the "meow" with a clang of his bell. Meanwhile, "There's a cat in the tuba" had become a solid part of Brazilian slang-a rough equivalent of "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...