Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houston's 700 Texan patriots could play a tune on a fife; one could beat a drum. They pooled their resources and sounded like a regimental band as Houston fell upon the Mexican Santa Anna on the bank of the San Jacinto. Texan vengeance for the massacre of the Alamo was satisfied; Texan independence was guaranteed; Sam Houston returned to lay out the city which bears his name, to become President of Texas, U. S. Senator when Texas entered the Union. It was an important battle hymn the fifer played over and over again at San Jacinto. Its lyric...
...Tweed's lawyers. Many another good name is connected with many another bad moment in New York City's government. No matter how well the present Tammany-ites behave themselves at Houston-and last week they said they were not even going to take a brass band-many a bad moment will doubtless soon be rehearsed by Republicans from the high-colored history of Tammany currently published by the biographer of P. T. Barnum...
...clock tonight the Class of 1928 will begin its Senior Spread and Dance to the strains of Gene Rodemich's Metropolitan Orchestra in Memorial Hall and of Ives' Band in the Delta. The most colorful of Commencement Week festivities lasts until 3 o'clock...
Such an offspring of the contest introduced this spring was not at all foreseen by the sporting prognosticators, to whom the derided "scholastic meet" was food for no little amount of ridicule. The glory of victory in this type of combat is indeed not of the strike-up-the-band manner; nor is it to be placed among any categories of the past. It is, like the contest itself, of more subtle stuff, and the exchange of thoughts and progress between universities is not the least of its merits...
Chief Judge John Philip Sousa of the National Band Concert, sponsored by the bureau at Joliet, had to listen last week while 27 bands comprising 2,000 high schoolers successively blared Finlandia, a stirring tone-poem of famed Finn Jean Sibelius. Although the genius of Sibelius has brought him a permanent subsidy from the Finnish government, he did not compose the national anthem: Maame Laulu ("The Song of our Country"), opus of Funns Bacius (composer) and Runeberg (poet...