Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition and atmosphere, for no university that gives its professor of rhetoric the right to graze a cow in its courts need envy the anachronisms of Europe, and the sense that one's dinner companion may hail from Augusta, or Miami, or Oshkosh, not to mention Gunsight or Broken Bow or Eagle Butte, gives one spatial contacts that are as cherished as the chronological ones of Europe...
...song hits, if everything goes as planned for their Princeton game celebration next Saturday. McCarthy's Boston Commanders will descend on the Gold-Coasters with musical and vocal talent sufficient to satisfy the most scrutinous of epicures. A violin soloist from the Camel Quarter Hour will wield the bow, while Billy Freestone, from the National Broadcasting Artists, and John Truman, will do the vocal artistry. Efforts are being made to secure "Annie's Cousin Fanny," a new hit which has been tremendously popular in the few places where it has been heard. Truman will sing for the first time...
This is Guy Vernor Slade "32, former leader and now the "maestro of the drill," from whose brain are evolved the formations and maneuvers which delight the crowds each Saturday. The "best examples of his talent are the "bow and arrow" and "wah hoo wah" formations staged for the Hanoverians last Saturday...
These who wondered at the intricate "bow and arrow" formation and the stirring medley presented by the University Band between the halves of the Dartmouth contest last Saturday, may be surprised to learn that the whole performance was the result of only two hours of practice, under the supervision...
...stepped back and proudly regarded his handiwork: Sergei Koussevitzky, the best-dressed man in Boston, imposing in cutaway and flowing black cravat. On Symphony Hall stage the players tuned to the oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler...