Word: bandsmen
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...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...