Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throng of anxious parents and a brass police band milled around on a dock in Hoboken last week. In floated the stubby Dutch liner Ryndam, her rails festooned with grins and sunburn...
...band blared into Bright College Years, drowning out cries of "Yoo-hoo!" and "Look over here!" Newsgathers scurried about the decks and dock, accumulating details of the first world cruise of a floating university. Through the customs, laden with souvenirs ranging from Siamese turtles to Norwegian cheese forks, leaving their cabins cluttered with enough "junk" to fill an international museum, poured the 500-odd floating students with their variously aged traveling companions and faculty...
That the Chinese band carrying strings of firecrackers on bamboo poles, which met them at Shanghai, and the flower girls who escorted the Queen of Spain to her lesson in U. S. student jazz, were characteristic minutiae of the color and folkways observed by students of history, sociology and kindred subjects, at first hand instead of in books...
...Saturday, the club, that the invitation of the United States Government, will sing at the dedication of the Weeks Memorial Bridge. The singers, with an army band which will accompany them, will be stationed upon a barge anchored in midstream. Two selections, "Integer Vitae", and "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee", will be given...
There will be a band concert between 2:30 and 3 o'clock, and the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and National Guard will participate in the ceremony, furnishing troops, boats, and airplanes. The actual unveiling of the four memorial tablets will take place at 3 o'clock...