Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indianapolis bankers; Governor Morrow of the Canal Zone; Seifoulah Yousry Pasha (TIME, Jan. 21), Minister from Egypt, presenting his credentials. ¶ Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attended a reception of the Congressional Club in their honor to the usual fanfare of trumpets and Hail to the Chief by the Marine Band. Mrs. Coolidge wore cloth of silver trimmed with chinchilla fur, a silver chain about her neck, no other jewelry. House guests at the Executive mansion included Howard Chandler Christy (who is painting a portrait of the President) and Mrs. Christy, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, William M. Butler...
...eighteenth century Italians, but she succeeded best, as far as her first group of songs was concerned, with the "Cradle Song" of William Byrd, a composer of Elizabethan England. The outstanding thing in her program, however, was her group of American songs. She sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band" with a vigor which brought out remarkably well the musical richness of the piece. It must have taken a great deal of courage for a singer with a reputation for artistry such as Mme. Gauthier's to attempt songs which have so long been an object of contempt and ridicule among those...
...land of sand, where camels are more numerous than locomotives, traveling is neither comfortable, rapid nor safe-even for Kings. King Hussein of Hedjas set out upon a tour of Arabia some weeks ago. Near Petra in Kerak (Trans-jordania) he was attacked last week by a band of Wahabis, who owe their allegiance to the Emir of Riyadh*, Abd el-Aziz es-Saud. After a long struggle, King Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration...
...Richard and Cosima were married, and the fruit of their union was the present Siegfried. It was to commemorate the birth of this son that Wagner wrote his most blithesome work, Siegfried, the third of the Ring tetralogy. On the morning after the child was born, he gathered a band of musicians in his house, surprised and awakened his wife with the sound of the beautiful Siegfried Idyll, which he had arranged from the music of the opera. The Siegfried Idyll remains one of the favorite concert pieces. Siegfried Wagner grew to manhood steeped in the Wagnerian tradition, devoted himself...
Henry Morgenthau, head of the International Loan Commission for the Succor of Greek Refugees: "In Athens, at an entertainment of the American Near East Relief, a boys' band played The Star Spangled Banner. Depatches stated that I was overcome by emotion, that tears rolled down my cheeks...