Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Worthingham pinch-hit for Margaret Jewell, instructor of physical education in San Jose (Calif.) State College, where the four strapping dancing demonstrators were students. Had Miss Jewell been present in Los Angeles last week, she would have advised playing on drums for cripples. Wrote she: "Excellent postural results can be derived from cross-legged sitting, trunk erect, arms lifted from the shoulder-elbows akimbo, while the pupil's interest is intrigued with rhythmic patterns to be played on her drum. Heart cases who often feel very 'out of things' because of numerous restrictions may become valuable...
LISTEN FOR A LONESOME DRUM-by Carl Carmer-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Carmer's approach to Northern New York is suggested by the romantic legend that gives his book its title. Sometimes dwellers there hear a sound of distant drumbeats. Are they made by the ghost of an English officer executed during the Revolution? Are they echoes of the death drums of the Senecas? In this fertile field of supernaturalism mystics, fanatics, founders of religious faiths and Utopian colonies have long bred in the Empire State's northern hills. Author Carmer says that the roar of the cities overwhelms the sound of the drum, which may be interpreted as meaning...
Proud Procession. Just inside the city gate the Italian line halted while the squabbles began again. A high priest with a war drum, a few startled natives and one lone officer of the Ethiopian Imperial Guard were waiting for the Italians. Only foreigner attending the ceremony was Secretary Balay of the French legation who arrived with a guard carrying machine guns and a tricolor flag...
...Presbyterian Mission hospital at Barrow contains nine beds, accommodates additional patients on the floor. Dr. Greist solved the problem of water supply by connecting a large iron drum to the hospital stove. In the drum is kept a constant supply of melting ice. For help in the hospital Dr. Greist depended on Mrs. Greist and another trained nurse...