Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding attended a "tribute of love" given by the children of Washington. A band of 8,000 youngsters broke through the marine guard and charged the Presidential stand, breaking up the proceedings. Those who could not get close enough to the President to press flowers into his hand, pelted him with bouquets over the heads of the crowd...
...plot concerns a band of crooks who pretend to be Hindu mystics to swindle Vivienne Segal out of her jewels?which gives opportunity for one gorgeous stage-set and a lot of music full of temple-bells and incense-smells and the rest of the allure of the East as known to a Broadway orchestra...
...current history of Russia may find this action a hopeful sign of responsibility reassumed. Should communism fall again to support its own people. American aid may be more hesitant; but for this act of charity now ending Americans may be proud of themselves and especially of the unselfish band of people who have administered their gift...
...need to use the schools for propaganda. The case would prove itself. But when they are asked to teach, not the truth about war, but the theoretical wrongfulness of a certain use of war, they are diverted from their purpose and debased, and all to no purpose. A brass band and bronze buttons outweigh volumes of that kind of exhortation...
...long been something of an axiom among musicians that for outdoor concerts the band is the thing. It has been thought that the weaker voice of the orchestra, with its soft strings and woodwind, was lost in an open space. This idea is changing. The cause of the change is to be found in the improvement in sounding boards. An orchestra playing in front of and partly under a great, cavern-like sound deflector contrives to project its tone to the audience quite acceptably...