Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gendarmes saluted. Out stepped His Royal Highness Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont, his sleek hair shining like patent leather, medals gleaming, a pale blue sash across the front of his grey-green silver epauletted uniform. A band struck up the Italian royal hymn...
...Wall and Broad Streets than his own Chicago. Whether or not he, "biggest bull," had been engaged in a month-long duel with Jesse Livermore, famed bear, was not a matter of public knowledge. No one could quite believe that Mr. Livermore was, in storybook fashion, tsar of a band of bears which had fanatically obeyed his orders for two months. But certain it seemed that a colossal effort to reduce the price of stocks had had masterful direction, beginning with the selling of U. S. securities by the French Government and other European investors weeks...
...President Litchfield explains the ceremonies to spectators and microphones. Dr. Arnstein hands Rear-Admiral Moffett the gold rivet and a silver-plated hand riveting machine, which looks like a dentist's forceps. Admiral Moffett places the rivet in the proper hole, squeezes it with his little machine. The band plays "Pomp and Circumstance." The band then plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the gathering breaks up. That evening there is a dinner at Akron's Portage Country Club...
While L. H. Hubbard '31 was grinding out moving pictures of some formations of the Harvard Band, a DH-60 Gypay Moth airplane, owned by Skyways. Incorporated, and piloted by E. H. L. Sexton, instructor in the Department of Archaeology after losing its altitude, grounded on Soldiers Field next to the second team football field yesterday afternoon at 4.45 o'clock. Another passenger, Gordon Cairnie, was in the plane at the time, but neither was hurt...
...headed from the direction of the Yard up the River when Sexton, who is an experienced pilot, realized that either he was out of gas, or the gas feed line was broken, and headed towards Soldiers Field. Falling rapidly the plane skimmed two trees, approached the field where the band was practicing, and bounced on the ground, smashing the landing gear, propellor, and lower wings...