Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bother about the silk hat, but under no circumstances get caught with your baton down," is the advice to his corps of assistants of Paul M. Hollister '13, Marshal for Harvard Day at the World's Fair tomorrow...
...really very luck getting a free baton and a free guide book," he concludes. "If an urchin says to you, 'Where did you get that stick, Mister?' reply, 'I, sir, am a Harvard man.' Then duck...
Last week the Moneywasters gave a dance. As usual, they did things up brown. This time they had Maestro Walter Barnes of Chicago and his Royal Creolians. Tickets in advance were 50?; on the spot, 65?. Negroes flocked to Natchez from Vicksburg, Centreville, Vidalia, Baton Rouge, even from New Orleans. Paid admissions: 557. The night was warm. Only way into the building was the front door; the Moneywasters had boarded the windows against peepers and gate-crashers. Tobacco smoke fogged the hall. Under the grey, dry Spanish moss which hung two feet above the dancers, the crowd on the floor...
...moss blazed up. Fire shot along the dry, wooden walls in their sheath of iron. Walter Barnes cried out: "You can all get out if you keep calm." He yelled and brandished his baton at the Creolians, trying to keep them playing on the platform. The dancers did not keep calm. They pressed toward the narrow door. It jammed. They dashed to the rear of the hall, and the boarded-up windows. Drummer Oscar Brown always carries a hammer to nail his drums to the floor; he hammered his way through a boarded window. A few followed...
...been at Minnesota 27 years, is program annotator for the Minneapolis Symphony, author of a widely used textbook, A History of Musi cal Thought. On the podium he conducts with fury, grunting and grimacing while his hair seems to stand on end. Once in a gymnastic passage his baton flew out of his grasp. Once in a difficult passage, Professor Ferguson grew so pleased that he entirely forgot to lead. Neither time did the chorus get out of the groove...