Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served in the State dining room. Among the prime guests was to be Frank Billings Kellogg, the Coolidge Secretary of State who brought to fruition the idea of France's Aristide Briand for such a treaty. Calvin Coolidge had also been asked to attend. There were to be band music, cameramen, a nationwide hookup...
While shag-hatted guardsmen .Changed Guard as though nothing were happening -drums rolling, band blaring, officers piping in loud falsetto-the surgeons and doctors worked. Half an hour later the Prince of Wales left, smiling. The operation was successful...
...draughty Moscow public dining hall a group of 99 U. S. tourists licked up grey beluga caviar last week, wryly gulped throat-scorching vodka. A band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." The tourists, clearing their throats, joined in the chorus. "It was the first time," opined the Associated Press, "that 'The Star-Spangled Banner' had been played in Moscow since the War." The day was the eleventh anniversary of the assassination by Soviet executors of Tsar Nicholas...
Just as the soft strains of Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde were floating out over Lewisohn Stadium last week, an airplane swooped low over the city, its roar and honk drowning out Conductor van Hoogstraten's orchestra and Edwin Franko Goldman's able, obliging band. Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay...
...Chicago, plans were afoot last week for a World's Fair Symphony Band, to be sent, after a Chicago contest, to other U. S. cities to advertise the 1933 World's Fair. Chicago musicians, under famed U. S. bandmasters, will compete this summer in Chicago parks. The Fair-conscious Chicago Daily News guaranteed funds for five concerts, published a plea for funds for 40 more...