Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will install a string section of eight violins, two cellos, and two bass violins. Candidates for these positions should report, with their instruments, for trials tonight at 7.15 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. Men retained at these trials will play at all local concerts, and will also accompany the band on its Spring trip...
...band also wishes to use several clarinets, and any men who play this instrument and wish to join the band...
...final two hours on Sunday morning were eminently characteristic of the temper of the two bodies. In the House, the scene of prize-fights and vaudeville repartee, Republican made love to Democrat and vice versa, while the Marine Band played and various members rendered vocal selections. The Senate was--the Senate. To the very end partisan, snapped at partisan and the body finally disbanded without even the usual vote of thanks to the presiding officers. So died the Sixty-seventh Congress, just as it had lived...
Dublin was raided by a band of Republicans in the busiest hour of the day. Shots were exchanged between the raiders and the Free State troops, causing the people to run "helter-skelter for shelter." Ten casualties are reported; no one was killed. The attack was launched against the Income Tax Office, whose officials have shown great activity in rounding up defaulters...
Late in the afternoon of his death, Delcassé went alone to the gardens of the Bishop's palace to hear the band. Heart attack came on. He retired to a secluded corner of the garden. Caretakers found his body soon after twilight...