Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole year Senator Elmer Thomas has been thumping the drum for inflation. He thumped last autumn for dollar devaluation and he got it. He thumped last spring for monetization of silver and he got what, from a distance, looked like it. Having learned how easy it is to get what he wants by thumping his drum in the ears of Treasury officials, he thumped it once again last week. Said...
...Treasury, Secretary Morgenthau, sunburned and jovial after a month on a Montana ranch, heard the new drum thumping, was not greatly alarmed. To the Press he promptly gave a tart answer...
Twenty-five artists are included in his road company, in which the band occupies the honored position. All of the instruments are of the best, the drum outfit alone costing $3,000. With a somewhat mystifying sign, he admitted that he is married, adding that "as yet" there are no smaller Calloways...
...When he settled in Harlem in 1929 he was distressed to find that to the U. S. African music meant only Negro jazz. So he set to work on Kykunkor, singing it while a Harlem piano teacher wrote down words and music. No one attempted to score the intricate drum beats. Asadata Dafora taught the players by ear and after a recent performance, the drummers struggled to pass the lesson on to Leopold Stokowski...
During his first week in Dublin Minister McDowell read that some 15% of the winners in the great Irish Sweepstakes drawing for the Grand National Steeplechase were U. S. residents. He found time to watch a drawing from the huge yellow mixing drum under a wall-long panel of racing thoroughbreds, the nurses from the hospitals the Sweepstakes subsidizes pouring bags of counterfoils into the drum...