Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet the chairman of the leading Congressional Committees, "responsible government," in the sense in which it is understood in Britain ("Mother of Parliaments") would almost instantly be achieved. Last week Senator Borah strode down the dusty streets of Boisé, capital of Idaho, as if a blaring band marched at his van. People applauded, tipped their hats to him; occasionally he nodded. Leather-jowled man of wide spaces and deep thinking, Senator Borah builds no theatre for his distant capital as does Senator Warren (see p. 9) at his;- his own personality provides dramatic catharsis...
...wide-eyed, little girl and a strapping, handsome-though-freckled lad in his teens kissed their mother as she read the telegram. Mrs. Langley had reason to be proud. She had won the Republican Congressional primary, has no opposition for election to the seat lost when her hus band resigned. She told the press: "While I did not base my campaign on vindication and sympathy - that was proved two years ago by the re-election of Mr. Langley - at the same time I feel that it is a vindication of us. I based my campaign on my own fitness...
...fairly engaging band of stagefolk tries to do the Chariot kind of thing. But they have no Beatrice Lillie and they have evidently fooled around at their rehearsals. They are not unlike high school celebrities giving a self-directed benefit, where the footlights falter and every one's pet smart cracks must be respected by all. Music by Gitz Rice, twitching by Irene Olson, genuinely ingenious gyrations by Nat Nazzaro Jr., have some merit. The chastely clad chorus is one of the prettiest units in town...
...having splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez, fell into a slow crawl beside the tug, "Pop" Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This Way, Ole Kid." The band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Miss Ederle responded from the water. She swam the first four miles in three hours and had a drink of beef juice. The band played...
...domination of Canada as its background. Here, at last, is that novel. Its titular figure is Peter Joel, border mystery-man, who dyed his doeskins black, sooted his face and flitted through the forests as an angel of warning to settlers and of destruction to Indians, after a band of redskins had yanked his wife naked from her blazing bed and scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason...