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...open the "ugly, big, heavy, bare,forbidding red brick factory," Edward of Wales arrived by plane, was announced by a Shakespearean blare of trumpets. He unlocked the doors with a golden key. Mr. Mellon unfurled the Stars & Stripes, H. R. H. the King's flag...
...than fifty years the composed militarily erect figure of John Phillips Sousa has dominated the world of military music. Although undoubtedly a great director and a versatile technician, he must acknowledge superiors in these fields. But as the inspired composer of stirring martial melodies he stands alone. In the blare of trumpets, the blast of horns, the shrill of clarinets, the reverberating beat of drums lies an overpowering factor in the patriotism of a nation. Of these elements Sousa was possibly the greatest master that the world has ever known. With consummate skill he combined them to produce a maximum...
...returning tide of military autocracy. A Hapsburg was still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism had had its day and the foundations of the old order rocked beneath the blare of its victorious trumpets. A new Napoleon had risen from the bloody barricades of the "June Days" in Paris, and Empire was soon to triumph in the shadow of the Republic...
...prearrangement. In them stood thousands of employes of the mail order house. They cheered. They shouted. They waved their arms. They tossed out rolls and rolls of ticker tape and other paper supplied by the management. Their noise and excitement blended with the toot of tugs and the blare of bands along the river...
...Mayor's office at City Hall gathered a noisy, sweaty crowd of jobholders, petty politicians and hangers-on?the Thompson Gang. Waiters brought them heaping trays of food & drink. Free cigars were chewed and waved. Backs were violently slapped, greetings bellowed. The sour grey air vibrated with the full blare of a brass band. In the centre of the boisterous human pack stood beefy, bloodshot Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, He was in his shirtsleeves. His flushed face was damp. His eyes bulged with excitement. His voice was hoarse from gleeful roaring...