Word: batons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reviled and vilified Franklin Roosevelt more than Huey Pierce Long. Nevertheless when the President heard that his bitter enemy had been shot in Baton Rouge (see p. 15), he publicly declared: ''I deeply regret the attempt made upon the life of Senator Long of Louisiana. The spirit of violence is unAmerican...
...last fortnight arrived Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja Raja I Rajgan of Kapurthala, and a pretty woman. They were late. Ignoring a strict Salzburg rule, the lean old Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation. Then the flashing-eyed Maestro turned...
...Broadway the hard-working youngsters played spirituals, sweet ballads and hot arrangements of tunes like Dinah and Sweet Sue on their rusty cornets, trombones, French horns, drums. Bystanders were especially taken with Band No. 2's impish 12-year-old leader who juggled his baton, shimmied vigorously...
Bandmaster Metz's rousing tune, in ragtime which was then becoming the rage, became the theme song of the Spanish-American War a dozen years later. Theodore Roosevelt, says Theodore Metz. took a baton and led Metz's band through A Hot Time. Also, with typical Roosevelt enthusiasm, the President of the U. S. exclaimed: "I'm proud to shake the hand of the man who wrote the song that stirred the nation...
...tune is more familiar than his march, On the Mall. Well do they know its words, its lively chorus with breaks during which they whistle and sing la-la-la-la. One night last week the Goldman Band launched into On the Mall, but for once not under the baton of white-mopped Bandmaster Goldman. On the podium stood a dark, chunky little man in a white suit. He waved his arms in a vigorous if unorthodox beat. He smartly stopped the musicians in time for each whistle and la-la-la-la. Then New York's music-loving...