Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece band with six drum-majors played between halves of a demonstration U. S. football game in which a team of players from Stanford, California and the University of Southern California beat a Harvard-Yale-Princeton team 7 to 6, under floodlights, in the Olympic Stadium...
...Aiken, Minister of Defense in President de Valera's Republican cabinet, issued orders to the army band not to play. Governor McNeill teetered nervously on the threshold, but an imported British ensemble known as St. Hilda's Band saved the day. Shouldering their tubas, dragging the bass drum, they dashed across the field, blared "The Soldier's Song" with a flourish...
First noise in the ceremony was the thump of a drum outside the stadium. This was the signal for Vice President Curtis to walk across the field, sit down with the members of the Olympic Committee. After a choir of 1,000, dressed in white, had sung the ''Star-Spangled Banner," came the parade of athletes. First in the parade were the Greeks; then in alphabetical order, came the Argentines, in green coats and white trousers, the Australians, in white suits and sun helmets, the Canadians, in bright red coats, and a single Egyptian, wearing a red fez and carrying...
...underfed B. E. F. appeared during its second parade. Early last week in the shuffling silent line of march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol were 4,701 men, 13 women, 17 children-about one half of the police census of the B. E. F. A drum and two bugles furnished all the music. General Glassford on a motorcycle circulated among the marchers, took the friendly salutes of leaders. Parades, he reasoned, do no harm, use up animal spirits. At the Capitol ranks were broken and the Veterans sprawled about to listen to political speeches...
Racine will tell you what he did with just a fife & drum...