Word: bandsmen
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...garden party hosted by the Queen was laid on at Buckingham Palace. During opening ceremonies at Westminster Hall, Her Majesty's Scots Guards bandsmen drew in their breath and tootled out Chattanooga Choo Choo. Barristers at the Old Bailey blinked uncertainly at that strange foreign phrase, "Have a nice day." And London's Daily Mail marked the occasion by proclaiming, "The loudly checked leisure suit and dime-store cigar make a welcome return to the city." Ten thousand American lawyers, and nearly as many spouses, children and friends, were on the town in London, assembled in tax-deductible (maybe) pomp...
...Hansen means these drifting bandsmen and their stories to stand for Europe, as Europe saw itself in the relative calm of 1912, his intention is not insistent. But he did choose to put his musicians aboard the Titanic. So the band plays as the ocean liner sinks--not Nearer My God to Thee but Handel's Largo--and the stories end, leaving dead calm and chilling mystery. And a few shreds of nautical bandsman's lore, useless now that the old liners are gone. "Who could know beforehand," thinks the bandmaster early in the voyage, "that old ladies threw...
...famed Royal Marines marching band. Last week their music was silenced in a deafening explosion that leveled one of the barracks and rattled houses within a two- mile radius. The toll: ten dead, 22 injured. British Defense Secretary Tom King called the blast an "appalling outrage against young army bandsmen who work for charity and who have given great enjoyment to millions across the country...
...covered by two Oriental rugs, strewn with roses thrown by the crowd. Weir and Bass Player Lesh stood to the left, Garcia and Keyboardist Mydland to the right, the two drummers and a percussion rig vast enough to drive a spaceship elevated to the rear. Lights swirled, and the bandsmen swung into the saddle and began their long ride...
...past few years on both sets of musical pranksters, however. An overrefined dignitary from the dean's office has objected to Harvard's best formation-the word PROCREATE!, more or less, spelled out on the field at half time. In 1980 at the Perm game, the bandsmen compromised by forming the same message in Arabic script. This, too, was deemed unacceptable. This year the subdued bandies did march into the bowl singing "To hell with Yale" to the tune of O Tannenbaum, but that was all. The Yale band also did not sink to the occasion. Had marauders...