Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jesus Salas, self-confessed leader of the band which ambushed and killed Francisco Villa near Parral last July (TIME, July 30, Aug. 20) was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He refused to divulge the names of his accomplices. Formerly a member of the House of Representatives of Durango State, he is now an inmate of Chihuahua State Penitentiary...
...objected to and interfered with the funeral of a local hero, Paolo Santamaria, whose body had been brought back from the former Italian battle front. This is said to have provoked the attack by the Fascisti. At Pontelagoscuro, near Ferrara. In the dead of a pitch black night a band of unknown persons tried to storm a fort containing thousands of tons of explosives. Rifle and revolver firing continued all night. The number of casualties was not reported. The military authorities are making investigations. At Mount Tricorno, on the Italo-Yugo-Slavian frontier. Shots were exchanged by Fascisti and Yugo...
...Central Executive Committee of the Russian Socialist Union. Reason given: The cruiser (of its own accord) struck the decisive blow in the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Apparently some sentimental feeling on the part of Moscow caused this "adoption" to be made, for it was stated that a cowardly band of counter-revolutionaries tried to blow up the Aurora in a fit of blind rage...
...that was the way he talked. But when he came back he found her practical, efficient, modern, unsympathetic. Enter a beautiful blonde home-wrecker, Mrs. Sidol, about to be divorced and wanting Jack's legal advice, accompanied by several involved plots. When the plots are all disentangled the band strikes up The Star Spangled Banner and everybody agrees that America is God's Only-Country. Sweet vanilla ice-cream for the unsophisticated! THE ALASKAN-James Oliver Curwood-Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Men are Men in Alaska and Women are Women. And when a Man meets A Woman, up in those...
Paul Whiteman, jazz orchestra leader: " Home from London on the Leviathan, I was met at Quarantine by a band in pneumatic suits. The musicians swam around the boat, playing me a syncopated welcome...