Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offensive would be launched. To avoid possible misunderstanding, sandbag barricades, erected at strategic points within the city, had been taken down. Under cover of the bombardment, Japanese blue-jackets landed five miles outside the city and engaged in sporadic hostilities with detachments of the Chinese garrison. Meanwhile, the Drum watchtower, which has warned Nanking citizens of danger since the Ming dynasty, sounded its strident alarm and refugees from Shanghai piled into British steamers, anxious to get back as quickly as they could. Also at Nanking was the U. S. destroyer Simpson. As the first shells screamed over the city...
...last the pioneers get lost. Only the pursuing Indians know the way out, and their price is Eunice Wolfhill. Since Eunice is already suspected of a liaison with another member of the party, her sacrifice seems little more than justice to her fellows. Now Eunice realizes that the drum call has been a summons to her destiny. She goes over to the redskin camp to meet it. The pioneers push off toward Oregon to meet theirs...
...Hoover has grown in inner stature. To strangers he may appear a beaten man but his friends marvel at his fortitude and lack of bitterness. Thin-skinned, he has learned to shrug off criticism with a philosophy described as "almost oriental in its calm." No longer do his fingers drum a nervous tattoo on his chair arm or his eyes rove the floor. He talks in a low, steady, less querulous voice. His words are weighted with patient resignation...
...whole performance to be broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems Taylor, official narrator, sat in a little glass booth in one of the grand tier boxes, describing music and action to radiauditors. In another soundproof booth were an expert with score in hand, ready with warnings to tone down drum beats and bass notes, and an engineer watching the volume-registering needle...
...West Point game, the Band did not get a chance to practice spelling out "Army". so that the formation had to be learned on the top of the Hudson River Boat on the way to West Point, one letter at a time due to the limited space. The large drum, which measures over six feet in diameter, probably had the distinction of being the first instrument from a college band to have an army escort, when it was carried down from the stadium at West Point to the boat by two squads of adepts...