Word: band
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recruits and 200 gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform was sky-blue, wasp-waisted, gold-buttoned, with gold band on a high-crowned pillbox...
...call it simply the "horn") is far & away the hardest of all brass instruments to play. Horn-blowers must have sensitive lips as well as stout lungs. Ellen Stone first tried her lips and lungs on a French horn six years ago, in the Teaneck, N. J. high-school band, when she was 16. Says she: "After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither her distracted family banished...
...Armistice Day medley will be the featured music while the band forms the letters HARLOW to the tune of "He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and a cannon shape from which it will shoot groups of players to spell ARMY...
Harvard's own band will compete with the grey-clad marchers of the cadet corps and their professional tooters for the crowds attention when it puts on its marching exhibition...
Accompanied by the West Point band, the soldiers will enter the yard and put on several complicated formations in the Sever Quadrangle, as in past years, and then break ranks to adjourn to the Union for lunch...