Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion boats in New York Harbor. He took one little girl by the hand and let her tweak his moppish mustachios. The band was playing "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief to someone on shore as if she had been going on a long journey, ran up the gangplank. There was a jangle of bells, a fountain of spray...
Cheating Cheaters. Almost the entirety of the plot is expressed in the title. In detail, it concerns two bands of thieves who are busily engaged in stealing from one another, each unaware that the other band is devoted to the same purpose. By the time that this point is cleared up, Betty Compson (who has been a detective all along) arrests both bands of robbers. Though totally ineffective as badmen, the thieves are comparatively comic, which is what they are intended...
Senators Charles Curtis and his lively colleague, Senator Arthur Cap- per, to introduce a band of Kansas flood-controllers headed by Governor Ben Sandford Paulen...
Amid pink chrysanthemums and maidenhair fern, and to the melodious murmuring of the Marine Band Orchestra, the Cabinet et ux. dined at the White House. It was the traditional fiesta which Presidents always give their hardworking Secretaries after the latter have spent a busy season preparing reports, and before the hurly-burly of a Congressional session begins...
Perhaps the fear, in this case, is an empty one, but it is usually true that when a band of zealots with a cry of "Allah!" pluage with proselytizing fervor into a war for a cause, the validity of the means becomes obscured in the worth of the end. The liberties taken by anti-German historians in the war are well known, and the dubious statement is current that sixty per cent of the babies born of tobacco smoking mothers die in two years. At least, no doubt, a man drinking aldehyde will replace the policeman...