Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family connection Kevin O'Higgins stood rooted in the very fibre of the new State. His father, Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, a distinguished surgeon, was a man who simultaneously championed the highest nationalist aspirations of Irishmen and defied their tendency to base, rabble violence. The result was that a band of armed incendiaries murdered him in his own home on the night...
...that, at excursion rates?is a problem that requires thought and appropriations each year. In view of the unwieldy size of the gathering and of a need for more intensive deliberations, Superintendent P. H. Claxton of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that next year's voting delegates be reduced to a band of 500, plus officers; representation to be in ratio with N. E. A. state memberships. The convention pondered his idea...
...That American Legion band, with its gigantic bandmaster is a sight I shall never forget and I saw London after the armistice." ?A. R. Gatter of San Francisco...
...inimitable, irrepressible, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
...hundred and eight guns boomed, at Peking last week in terrific salute. At the Hall of Ceremonies, an imposing structure on a tiny island in the middle of a toy lake, hundreds of Chinese officers and diplomats prostrated themselves thrice. A Chinese band struck up the national anthem-to Western ears shrill and squealing. At the focus of this orgy of homage stood a slim, imperious Chinese, clad from neck to heel in a gorgeous, shimmering, blue silk Field Marshal's uniform of his own invention. This personage was the War Lord of Manchuria and North China, the great...