Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Band will play tonight at the Framingham Charity Ball for the benefit of the Framingham Hospital at 8 o'clock tonight under the direction of A. S. Simmons '24. Of late the band has beeen working on Tschaikowsky's Symphony in F minor and the Grieg suite, Sigurd Jorsalfar, which it will present for the first time tonight as part of its concert program...
...close of the concert the band will furnish music for dancing which will follow. An addition of eight violins, four cellos, and two bass viols will be made so that the band will, as a dance orchestra, consist of more than 50 pieces...
Music will be rendered by a specialty band composed of E. B. Greene, Antony Carrillo, Winthrop Wetherbee Jr., and G. B. Moynahan, all from Standish Hall...
What American poet so great, so heralded, so powerful that he can move huge audiences of very strong men to tears? What poet is it who is met at railroad trains by the town band? To whom politicians bow? Whose ditties sailors carry in their packets? Whom baseball players revere ? Before whom prizefighters are as little children? "We have no Homer, minstrelling through the land," you reply. Ah, but we have our Eddie Guest, and he cannot be denied...
...which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon-drivers practiced frantically with their twenty-foot whips to the detriment of the shop windows and passing pedestrians. The town took on a sombre aspect. No one knew what the future held for this quiet, determined band of men who left the town of Moab to fight the Indian on his own ground...