Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while Lee was on leave at Arlington, a rabid Abolitionist named John Brown, with five Negroes and thirteen whites, stormed and captured Harper's Ferry Arsenal. Terror and violence were in the air. A small band of militia attacked; Brown held his own. The next day relief came, the U. S. Marines! At their head rode Colonel Robert E. Lee. The arsenal was recaptured. Brown, whose soul was to go marching on, was captured...
Edwin Franko Goldman (Goldman's Band...
...Despite the unreasonableness of Admiral Collard's request, the band was dismissed and a jazz band summoned. The attack on the bandmaster caused great dissatisfaction among the lower deck and intense indignation among the officers organizing the dance...
...band was playing abominably. ... I spoke to the bandmaster in the sight of other persons but not in their hearing...
...Manhattan last week Arturo Toscanini conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra's 2298th concert, the last of the season, its valedictory before it merges with the New York Symphony and becomes the Philharmonic-Symphony of New York. Toscanini will be chief conductor of the blended band. As such last week he was painted by newspapermen...