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Word: tubas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very, very drunk. We switch instruments. I have no idea how to play the tuba. None whatsoever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Introducing: Fifteen's 15 | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...Spotted: Dancing across the Widener steps with a tuba wrapped around him, singing "To Hell With Yale" to the tune of "Oh, Christmas Tree" at 1:02 a.m. Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Introducing: Fifteen's 15 | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

CLASS CLOWN David Bowie (4), at Berklee College of Music: "How does a tuba player answer the telephone? Hello, Domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Finally, in Closing | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Another very difficult situation can be the convenience of entryway incest. That tuba player from upstairs who keeps giving you the eye in your proctor group meetings may want to take your friendly relationship one step further. The simple response to the predatory instincts of those male entry-mates is to lock your door at all times and make sure to utilize the peep-hole when there is an unexpected knock at the door. After your next trek to see him in the wilds of a liberal arts school in Maine or the frat-heaven of your state university, make...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: How to Keep Him on a Leash | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...what F.O. Matthessen had to say in his lectures, and Archibald Macleish's stories about Hemingway in Paris as we sat in his Widener office with the spring sun streaming through the window, but I remember the teepee swaying, and the rabbit on the Great Hall table and the tuba player from the Boston Pops who played solo at a cocktail party we gave in Eliot B-42. The tuba player said he'd never been asked to do such a thing before--to play alone at a cocktail party, and he truly enjoyed it. We enjoyed everything about everything...

Author: By George A. Plimpton, HARVARD CLASS OF 1948 | Title: Passing Geography, Playing the Tuba, and Partying the Night Away | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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