Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Malecon, a seawall boulevard, the Army Staff Band plays for the public; in Central Park, the Havana Municipal Band. In the Tropical Gardens, free beer is served...
Sunday the cause of religion suffered another attack when the forces of the Salvation Army invaded New York's Greenwich Village, to convert the wayward inhabitants. The attacking army consisted of a single old gentleman armed with an umbrella. When the band played "Abide With Me", he refused, and shouting, "I don't believe in religion of any sort," belabored the commanding Major about the head with his weapon. In this instance, the temerity of revivalism in attempting to usurp the place where so many lost causes have died in peace may be criticized. But no one can but commend...
...afternoon he began dictating the speech he will deliver to the Pan-American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched a button and lit up the Capital's Christmas tree. Soon after, the Washington throngs trooped into the White House grounds to sing Christmas carols around the lighted porte-cochère. President & Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge and a choir sent by the Interstate...
Football games in the Autumn rumble gently through the end of September, thump through October, thunder through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field...
...baseball game is also planned at which the Harvard Band will perform...