Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in his 45-years career as band leader, John Philip Sousa and his band will give a concert at the University next Monday afternoon, September 28, at 3 o'clock, in Sanders Theatre. Through the courtesy of Lieutenant Sousa the concert will be open without charge to the faculty and students of the University...
...himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children; a band of bearded woodcutters hupging a fire that flames scarlet among Alpine snows. The genius of the family, Theodore F. Powys, appears in the journal, now plunged in abysmal moroseness, now making "his sardonic, dry quips, his double-tongued chirpings, jumping this way and that like crickets in a hot hayfield...
...most radical mechanical change" is "the widening of the transmission brake band by ⅝ of an inch." The engine remains unchanged. The chassis has been markedly lowered, as in Le Ford Francais - the company's French product...
...locked tightly in each other's embrace, in many cases with the cheek of the girl against the cheek of the man, as they went gliding across the floor, to the sensuous strains of oriental music, varied, from time to time, by the clanging discords of a jazz band, their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were positively indecent. And all of this in an atmosphere that was strongly tainted by cigaret smoke and the fumes of whisky, which was being sold in cold-blooded violation of the Constitution of the United States...
Members of a Methodist church recently broke ground for a new edifice. There was a parade headed by a police band, moving pictures shown against a screen hung on the outside of the old church, and within the old building a continuous vaudeville show, including a donkey educated to pick numbers out of a hat, hot-dog and pop stands, while plenty of red lemonade added to the eclat of the occasion. The event took place in New York city, where the new four million dollar Broadway temple, under the leadership of Dr. C. F. Reisner is, according...