Word: bande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swell show before the game and between the halves today," predicted Robert M. Peebles '40, manager of the band...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 23--Coach Ducky Pond sent a confident band of Eli gridmen through an impressive passing drill here this afternoon. Fred Burr and Ted Harrison were landing their tosses into the arms of receiver after receiver, and Yale hopes of springing an upset on favored Harvard rose...
...Little Dixie-the best of the town's Harlem points. Jack Hill's band is one of the finest jump combos in this vicinity and is worth hearing. They play much like Basic with some very good sax solo work and some fine arrangements done for them by a Harvard Med. School student. Place usually has some good dancers and a singer who gets away with a good imitation of Helen Morgan. . . Raymor Ballroom while inhabitated by jitterbugs and the like, has some good jazz in Les Brown's band. . . Roseland State Ballroom much the same type as the Raymor...
...join his robber band...
...years there have been some great doings. In 1859 a band of 100 cadets trooped to Charles Town to witness the hanging of an indiscreet fanatic named John Brown. In 1861 a 37-year-old instructor quit his ten-year job at V. M. I., went off to become Stonewall Jackson, the Great Hope of the South. The school graduated 823 men who became officers in the Confederate Army, ranking from major general to second lieutenant. The entire cadet corps rushed to New Market to help check the Union advance through Shenandoah Valley. Union troops later burned their school buildings...