Word: band
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard band increased in splendor and magnificence Saturday as it displayed new concoctions before the 45,000 at the Army game. For the benefit of the West Pointers, a human bullet was shot out of a huge animate machine gun with revolving drum...
...tunes of Irving Berlin, Alice Faye and Ethel-Merman vocalize their way through a familiar but amusing version of boy-meets-boy-loses-boy-gets in the current screening of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" at the University. The story itself, showing the incredible ups and downs of show business, covers the last quarter of a century in an interesting if superficial picture of the times...
Higginson's Band. The fame of Henry Lee Higginson's orchestra has not been limited to Boston. Long before the Philadelphia Orchestra was heard of, connoisseurs rated the Boston Symphony the finest organization of its kind in the U.S., some said in the world. Although it has been rivaled in recent years by at least two other U.S. orchestras,* it has held its place fairly steadily for more than half a century. Only once in its history did it fall behind the front rank, and that was when its greatest conductor, razor-faced, German-born Karl Muck...
Waxing Roth, Sage sagaciously says, between bites of a Hershey Barr, keep your eye on the Cornell band, watch Harvard's forward passes, and read the scoreboard: 27-14. Dartmouth 21 - Princeton 14; Penn 14 - Yale...
Blumgarten minimized the importance of the snake dance alleged to have taken place, and said it didn't last more than a minute. He also recalled that at one point the band broke into "Hit the Line for Harvard.", indicating no animosity...