Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual routine was followed. Gold Stick-in-Waiting performed his miracle of walking backwards into the Throne Room without slipping, tripping or falling. The band played God Save the King and His Majesty gave his customary three nods of gratitude. Americans presented...
...other delegates were quite as pleased. They had gone to Geneva a hopeful band of enthusiastic idealists. At Geneva, they found it indispensable to pose as disillusioned realists. After Geneva, they were again idealists giving scope to their dream-a warless world. How far they had reconciled idealism with realism was a story told by the convention...
...tower on St. Aldates into "Tom Quad," illuminated by hundreds of lanterns. Through the archway in the far, left-hand corner, out into the older part of the college toward the Meadows, familiar music greeted the visitors. In the great Dining Hall, none other than Vincent Lopez "and his band," hale and hearty from Yankee-doodledum, were forcing toes to jazz with his syncopated music while the dowagers and fond mamas awaited expectantly for the engagements that would be announced that night...
Percy Hammond-''There is a good hornblower in the band...
Outside St. Peter's in Rome there were strange scenes, last week. In fiendish war-paint, a band of Iroquois Indians fell upon canoeing Jesuit priests, slashed them with knives, bit out their fingernails, grilled their soles on glowing tomahawks - all on large banners which decorated the main entrance to the church...