Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bebe Daniels Stacs in a Light Picture While Ted Lewis and His Band Carry Off the Stage Honors...
...buzzing in the Palo Alto living room became a loud caucus of triumph. John Philip Sousa's band blared its best. The President-elect was sitting down at the moment. He did not get up at once but sat, eyes downcast, embarrassed, rubbing his forehead with his fingertips. They wanted a speech. "Not tonight," he said. Outside the house, a phalanx of Stanford University undergraduates yelled persistently. The President-elect reluctantly took his way to the terraced roof of his house, under the California stars. Tears glistened on his cheeks as he looked down on that fragment...
Died. Howard E. Wurlitzer, 57, band instrument tycoon of Cincinnati, son of the late Rudolph Wurlitzer, who founded the Wurlitzer Co.; of influenza; in Manhattan...
...Irish-Italian blood and romantic ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...
Starting at the Union at 6.30 o'clock the procession led by in band went through the Yard gathering adherents and then passing through Harvard Sqsuare added to its numbers all those in the Freshman Halls and Business School who were violent enough in their partisanship to brave the terrors of. Boston on a night such as last night truned...