Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three hundred years ago a band of Scotsmen, wearied of ecclesiastical feuds and tyrannous wars, sailed for America. Seeking a climate like their own they landed in Acadia, secured a grant from James I, fought the French, remained at Nova Scotia and colonized. Later some of them moved westward. Today Scottish-Canadians largely people the Dominion...
Another British puppet, paradoxically more potent than his elder brother Amir Abdullah, is King Feisul of Irak, inventor of a special headdress named after him. Of all the Arab lands in the Near East, melancholy King Feisul's seemed the least perturbed about Jews, though one band of Iraki tribesmen were said to be making their way secretly to Palestine...
Sousa's March. Lieut.-Commander John Philip Sousa & Band opened their 37th season with a concert on Atlantic City's steel pier. For ten weeks they will tour the country, beginning at the dedication of Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Bandmaster Sousa, 74, has swung his baton a half-century. Today he is keen-eyed, grey-haired, martial. Gone is the pointed black beard which used to punctuate his face on billboards. Before a concert he pulls on a new pair of white kid gloves, afterwards peels them off, autographs them for lady admirers. To aspiring young bandmasters...
Tycoon is here to stay until 1) a truly formidable band of subscribers demands its banishment, or 2) a better substitute for overjournalized "magnate" is discovered...
Into the East Room one day last week walked a Chicago lawyer. In his ears was the blare of the Marine band; before him, a large U-shaped table covered with green cloth; about him, diplomats in formal attire', trim state department ushers, military and naval aides, personages of great official importance. As a civilian he felt a little lost until he caught sight of his good friend Senator Borah sitting up near the head of the U-table. And there, too, were Calvin Coolidge, Frank Billings Kellogg. The Chicago lawyer watched President Hoover, looking hot in a cutaway, shake...