Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Indians, on the other hand, are responsible for such pieces as Cherokee, Sunapee, Sagamore, Eagle Eyes. Concerts given by his band in Manhattan parks and stadia have been remarkable for the perfect orderliness of the audiences. His organization has been called, "A Symphony Orchestra in Brass", "The Greatest Band in the World...
Last week at Jackson Mills (Ocean Co.), N. J., one George W. Perry, geologist of Los Angeles, Calif., reluctantly demonstrated to incredulous newspaper reporters the "Perry Mineral Indicator," a tripod apparatus fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing...
...early age, he contributed to the music of a rickety, rollicking, tenement street, at first with infantile muling, later with a stout, pubescent chirrup. He skinned his knees in the gutters of this street; he nourished himself smearily with its bananas; he broke its dirty windows and eluded its brass-and-blue clothed curator. When he was 13, his mother purchased a piano...
...schooner Bozvdoin to have her sails bent on. His own ship, the Peary, waited at Wiscasset, Me., where the dismantled planes were to be loaded aboard and the start made on Bunker Hill Day (June 17). Governor Brewster of Maine planned the event as a state function with speeches, brass bands and official godspeed...
...London garden, a brass band played. Chinese lanterns swung on wires. At tables sat a company of 850. Most of them were delegates to the Interstate Post-Graduate Medical Assembly, which opened in Wigmore Hall, London, last week, when the Duke of York gripped the hand of Dr. Charles H. Mayo, President. Addresses were delivered by Neville Chamberlain, Ambassador Houghton, the Duke of Connaught. Lord Dawson, physician to King George, defined life as "one long innoculation." Others discussed this, that. This party was preceded by one in the garden of the London Hospital, where they danced, ate, drank, talked, smoked...