Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employes; $1,000,000 for legislative expenses, includ- ing $360,000 for publication of the Congressional Record, $200,000 for compilation and publication of tariff information, $226,000 for "mileage." The Senate's vote to adjourn, after its refusal to do so last fortnight, came suddenly, unexpectedly. The band of two dozen "Young Turks" (junior Republicans) was beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally...
These new Republican warriors were called "the Young Turks, a band about 20 strong who had mutinied against the feeble leadership of the Old Guard. For Senators they were young men (average age: 56). As legislative legionaries they were mostly rookies serving their first Senate enlistment...
Whenever the National Horse Show is held in Madison Square Garden, a bowlegged groom is procured from somewhere, dressed in a red coat, and stationed with the top-hatted judges in the middle of the tanbark. Conrad's band plays "Hearts and Flowers" and Alexander Boss, the Newport, R. I., policeman who plays postillion on William H. Vanderbilt's coach, renders "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" and "Pop Goes the Weasel." Thus it has been for many years. Thus it was last week, in spite of all nebulous rumors that new blood and new money have sullied...
...field with 1.300 performers. It began at the geological beginning. Several men carrying torches represented volcanoes and lava. Groups of maidens took the parts of stars, seas, land, flowers. Girls in white garments were the Glacier. Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and saluting the flag...
...Lewis was one of jazz's first jazzbos. He was playing the clarinet crazily in Earl Fuller's band in Rector's restaurant, Manhattan, when he began to make money. Until then his antics had always got him into trouble. His father made a good living running the ladies bargain store in Circleville, Ohio. Young Lewis went over to Chillicothe in the street car every night to play in the high school band. Of Hebrew descent, he joined the Episcopal church to sing in the choir next to a girl he liked. He was discharged from Henry...