Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe it or not, I'm a stowaway...
...Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to neighboring towns to borrow warrants. After a short, intense campaign he reported to General Butler that the last "big" bootlegger had left town. Merchants dusted off their stock, waited anxiously for the sound of the band leading the Marines back to Quantico...
...Student Council keeps for its own overhead and running expenses $700; while the remainder of the $4,000 is for organized charities, and miscellaneous purposes. The Salvation Army is to receive $500, the American Red Cross, $1,000, and the Harvard Band, $750. The allotments for the Cambridge Boy Scouts, the Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students, and the Near East Relief have not yet been decided...
...contribution of the Student Council toward the expense of taking the University Band to Michigan is a gesture of hospitality and a surety for finer relationships between Universities of East and West that should bring considerable satisfaction to the body of Harvard undergraduates and graduates. Limited by a heavy program of expenditure the H. A. A. is obviously incapable of suffering the total cost of the undertaking, amounting to approximately $4,000. Through the aid of the Student Council, and the private gifts of certain influential Chicago graduates who have already contributed $500, Western graduates and the University at home...
...vast body of Western graduates, and to the even greater body of Big Ten associates the presence of the University Band in its traditional role will satisfy a definite need. It is not so much the individual pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment...