Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Band Organizes Next Week...
...first musical organization to organize is the band. Trials for this University organization, which plays at the football games, mass meetings, and at occasional concerts, will be held early next week. Regular rehearsals will follow immediately, and the season's debut will be made in the Stadium when the University eleven opens against Geneva...
Last week I had a big field day. In Chicago they had a wonderful parade, just on account of me. I left the Hotel Bismarck, climbed in a truck. In front of me was at boisterous brass band which kept playing "How Dry I Am." Beside me rode my daddy, like Pompey returning to Rome in triumph. In case you do not know him, my daddy is a nice old man-rather chubby and rather bald-has name is George E. Brennan [Democratic nominee for Senator from Illinois (TIME...
...have been a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska; central Asia had been the original point of dispersal of the animal kingdom, including mankind. Dr. Osborn mentioned the matter to his ablest zoologist and that young man, Roy Chapman Andrews, industriously raised half a million dollars to take a band of assorted scientists into the Gobi for five years of intensive digging. As every one knows, the Andrews expeditions have thus far unearthed sufficient in the way of dinosaur skeletons and eggs, rare baluchitheria and traces of Mousiterian man to substantiate Dr. Osborn's hypothesis in spectacular fashion (TIME...
...President finished breakfast, glanced at his morning mail, then climbed in his punctual limousine, sped* to Plattsburg, N. Y. He arrived. Cannon boomed 21 times, buglers sounded the Presidential flourish, the regimental band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and Hail to the Chief. Within five minutes, the Commanderin-Chief of the Army and Navy was on the reviewing stand, flanked by Col. John H. Hughes, commander of the Plattsburg military training camp, and Major General C. P. Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall...