Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story goes that when a band of Cheyenne savages swooped upon the peaceful Kaw village 1868, small Charles Curtis, aged 8, stole bravely past the enemy's pickets at nightfall and travelled 60 miles to Topeka for help. Be that as it may, he lived in Topeka from then on, a small boy with such a passion for horses that he gained fame as a jockey on Midwestern tracks long before he finished high school...
Blue. The first color band would include such U. S. citizens as stand pat for a stratified society topped by an aristocracy either of money or brains. They find the present form if not the present condition of government in the U. S. satisfactory on the whole. They think little of radical reformers. For various reasons, all would call Socialism "rot." Besides Banker Morgan, Blues include such assorted types as Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Chairman William Morgan Butler of the G. O. P., William Wrigley Jr., William Randolph Hearst, James J. Tunney, Will Durant...
...horsemen looked at one another in awestruck silence; for it was certain that an outlaw band of hostile Morroccan tribesmen had kidnapped M. et Mme. Yvse Steeg, M. et Mme. Jean Maillet, nephew and stepson and their wives of Theodore Steeg, French Resident General of Morrocco, the highest official of the Republic in the Morrocco protectorate. The party had gone ahunting...
...over again the some heavy un-Collegey cheer. Other colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly college students... We may not be able to win..." he concludes (after announcing that we are reputed to be "too dignified to have a peppy cheer"), "but certainly in our Band music, our singing, and our cheering, we ought to win a larger measure of approbation from those attending the games." Mr. King's criticisms are apparently made in all seriousness...
That they are a thousand miles from home will not be indicated by lack of support. In addition to a large following from its own student body, and alumni from all the Big Ten Schools. Indiana brings her famous 98 piece military band, one of the finest in the West, with which she will endeavel to demonstrate her musical, as well as her athletic superiority...