Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clock the procession was ready to move. It was headed by a band which played triumphal martial music, after which the lectors, bearing their flaring torches, marched in a double row. Then Legendre, represented by a wooden skeleton, attired only in a red flannel shirt, was ignominiously hauled to his doom in a brick cart, in which rode his executioners. After him marched the triumphant sophomores in a band fifty strong, bearing torches and Roman candles, and thus making their pathway glorious. After the conquerors marched the invited guests from the other classes of Columbia, presenting an imposing appearance...
...brass band, composed entirely of Ann Arbor students, will blow at an Ashland summer hotel this season...
...general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with a broad band of bas-relief near the top. The bas-relief represents action and attitudes of riding a race. The whole is surmounted by a cap or cover of elegant design, bearing a winged wheel flying through bronzed silver dust...
Sitting Bull and one hundred and fifty of his band leit Fort Randall last Saturday for Fort Yates, where they propose to engage in farming...
...rumored that the Pierian were serenading College House yesterday noon, but it was discovered that it was a little German band playing in front of the post-office...