Word: bandsmen
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...members of the Southern Methodist band protested a ruling which prevented them from accompanying the team to play St. Mary's in San Francisco. What the bandsmen missed: Southern Methodist's first beating of the year...
...Brass bandsmen blared a stirring tune. To their feet leaped the 10,000 blues and lustily sang thus...
...Yachting on Lake Llanquihue, Chile, whence they proceeded to Lake Fria, Argentina, T. R. H. were serenaded by a Chilean Army band under a tropic moon. The band was on a barge. After moonset, as the barge was being towed home, a lake steamer ran it down. Twelve bandsmen drowned, six were saved, one body was recovered. Messages of condolence were promptly sent by Edward of Wales...
...years ago the defeat in the Crimea of General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel left Russia's White Army stranded in a Bolshevik prison camp near Constantinople. Provisions were scarce. The troops had nothing left but the frayed uniforms on their backs. Bandsmen had lost their instruments. To raise the morale, each regiment formed a chorus...
...party the fascinating brown beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno Pontificio...