Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Chairman John T. Adams, promptly at the appointed hour, called the Convention to order. John Philip Sousa stepped to his side. The lights went out, amber and purple auroras spread from the ceiling. Sousa rapped with his baton. His band struck up The Star Spangled Banner, followed by The Stars and Stripes Forever...
Philadelphia has its "Band of Gold'- (TIME, June 2), but it is seven summers behind Manhattan, whose "Goldman Band" has just resumed its activities. Edwin Franko Goldman used to conduct his white-winged, leather-throated forces on the green at Columbia University, whift the grinning statue of the Great God Pan leered at the audience under the torrid moon. But that space has become too congested, Now the plangent tones of the cornet, the barbaric beatings of the bass-drums call New Yorkers to the Mall in Central Park every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Forty thousand...
...music will be supplied by two orchestras, playing alternately, Bert Lowe's inside the Hall and Ives' Band outside in the Delta, where canvass will be spread for dancing...
...post-card questionnaires sent out to many undergraduates on the subject of a "Harvard Scout Club" have caused what might be called an ebullience of intellect. The wording of the postcards undoubtedly suggested the idea that the boys of Harvard were to band themselves together into a sort of picnic club that might appropriately subscribe to the Youth's Companion and pound rocks; but, as Mr. Kennedy explains, the sponsors of the movement intended no such thing. Since the Senior Picnic has been abolished it would be a great shame to institute another such custom. The sarcasm of our communicants...
...object for which all this hardship and disease is being undergone seems trivial in the extreme. It will make the race of men no happier to know that somewhere in the tangle of tollage that is the Darien peninsula there really is a band of fair haired, thin lipped natives. Science will be little the wiser, and the sum total of human knowledge will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into...