Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman had no business to attempt such a flight. It was perfectly ridiculous to read of this young person's chatter, of her preparations for the event?her vanity bag, Chinese ring, knickers, black and red four-in-hand tie and pastel-shaded band over dark brown hair?and to remember that she was going to risk her life just to gratify her stupid vanity...
...brightest spots of the afternoon, for the Harvard side of the Stadium at least, was the playing of the Harvard Band. Displaying a snap and precision, a rhythm, having besides, a drum major who did not fear the regulation size baton, the Crimson Band, deported itself in such a manner as to win the administration of both cheering sections...
...LADY FROM DUBUQUE--Her nephew wishes she wouldn't. Waxes benevolent at the alphabetical dexterity of the band; My, she opines, they certainly know their P's and Q's. Yes, replies the long suffering relative, and their D's and H's. Her own belief is that the young lady in front has been taking rum for a cold and consequently has grown evorish. Slow, heavy, this number can he relied upon to hold her own by sheer onderous weight...
Music at the Copley-Plaza will be furnished by the Meyer Davis Society Orchestra of Washington, D. C., and by the Barybary Coast jazz band of Dartmouth. Bert Lowe, in person, and his 20 piece Hotel Statler Orchestra will play for the Statles...
...argued that to honor every visiting band by learning to play one of its tunes and forming the letter on the field would require too much time, let it be pointed out that college songs are no harder to learn than the light, soothing music with which touchdown-thirsty patrons are entertained during dull periods of the game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that...