Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After lunch the squad, coaches and managers left by bus for. White River Junction, where they boarded a special Pullman car to complete the journey to Cambridge by train. The busses pulled out amid the cheers of 1100 students and the playing of the college band. Practically the entire student body of 2200 students and the band will leave on two special trains at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. An athletic holiday has been granted over the week end so Hanover will be a deserted village tomorrow night...
...acre park at Parthia, Ill. Myra, an orphan, was John Driscoll's great-niece and he brought her up there, a forceful, coarse old Irishman and a vivid, a wild little girl. She had jewels and many gowns and a Steinway piano. She rode keen horses. The town band played at her parties and serenaded John Driscoll on his birthday; he had bought the bandsmen their silver instruments and when they played for him he treated with his best whiskey. He had wrung a great fortune out of contract labor in Missouri swamps...
...night, the Plerian Sodality inaugurated their second season with G. S. Stanton '27 as conductor. Twenty-one men who represent talent on eight types of instrument, have been added to the ranks of the musicians this fall, and when the drummers have been released from active duty in the band, the orchestral organization will be complete...
...cheering Italians who lined the shore and spied upon the Dolphin and the Giuliana wondered, as did many a newsgatherer, just what the Premier and the Foreign Secretary said to each other. Straining their ears they heard distinctly "God Save the King" rendered by the Giuliana'a band...
Hard by Lake Constance dwells a band of craftsmen skilled at a unique trade-the building of zeppelins. The late Graf von Zeppelin taught them the technique of their art and paid them well. During the War all Germany looked to them to float tons of explosives over London. Then came Versailles, and the building of zeppelins for Germany was forbidden. Almost, the great Zeppelin factories were ordered destroyed. Almost, the "zeppelin guild" on Lake Constance was scattered. These things did not take place because the Allies, covetous of reparations, agreed to accept payment in zeppelins...