Word: band
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets were as gay as any holiday. Cafes along Kurfurstendamm overflowed. It was good sport to salute friends with "Heil Stalin," and when some young blades rang the doorbell of the Soviet Embassy, shouted "Heil Moscow" and ran away, that was very funny too. In a midtown Bierstube, a band struck up the Communist Internationale and everybody stood up. Gossip even got around that that great German Communist, Ernst Thalmann, who once polled three times as many votes as the Führer himself, was to be released from a concentration camp. Along the Wilhelmstrasse, knowing officials bet 20 bottles...
Musicians may choose from among the Glee Club; Harvard's famous band; the Instrumental Clubs, which annually stage a variety show; and the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University's symphony orchestra...
...Indian victims of Canadian religious persecution got U. S. permission to settle in Alaska, founded Alaska's first refugee colony at Metlakatla. They fished for salmon, now have Alaska's most prosperous municipality. With publicly owned utilities, a 60-piece band, Alaska's only municipal hall, modern Met-lakatlans have fine homes (onefourth have organs or pianos), own boats valued from...
...launching on the ways of a Belfast shipyard last week. Formidable, indeed, was the launching. As if sensing the pressure under which the had been built, anxious to get into the water as soon as possible, H. M. S. Formidable waited only for a crowd to gather, a band to tune its instruments and Lady Wood, wife of Britain's Secretary of State for Air, who was to christen the ship, to clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping...
...kingdom of swing in the U. S. (1938), other foreign pilgrims have followed him. Latest is a diminutive, 21-year-old Javanese named Harry Lim, editor in chief of the Batavia, Dutch East Indies magazine Swing (Officieel Orgaan van the Batavia Rhythm Club), circulation 800. Critic Lim, whose favorite band leader is Duke Ellington, visited Manhattan, listened reverently in hotspots, bought about 1,500 jazz records to take home with him. Critic Lim did not like jitterbugs. They seemed like irreverent, undignified drunkards. "If," said he, "we in Batavia were ever so lucky as to hear a concert by Duke...