Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...
Pipe: Meerschaum, with gold band, from Vineyard, Mass...
...inelasticity of rubber is useful-in motor car tires, bumpers, airplane shock absorber cords-because it absorbs considerable of the energy which stretches it and transforms that absorbed energy into heat. That is why a continually flexing, moving tire is hot. Pull (not slide) a rubber band between closed lips. The lips can feel the heat. Pull (not slide) a piece of steel similarly (a machine is necessary), the steel will cool...
...evening at 8.30 o'clock the University Instrumental Clubs will offer a concert at the Roxbury Latin School. This is one of the last concerts to be given in preparation for the annual Christmas tour. Included in the program will be: "Glorious Forever", by Rachmaninoff: "Johnny Harvard": "Schneider's Band": and several specialty numbers...
...poor, but all the children have unusual musical talent. Rosa, 13, plays the piano; Lorraine, 10, the cornet; Ruggiero, 9, and Giorgio, 7, the violin; Emma, 4, the drums and cymbals; and even Virginia, 2, sings perfectly in tune. Three years ago the Ricci children had their own little band, picked up what pennies they could in their neighborhood. About that time Father Ricci realized Ruggiero's astonishing ability and scarcely had to persuade Teacher Persinger to instruct...