Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris reception. Always in the press spotlight was big, breezy, beetle-browed George Baker, Mayor of Portland, Ore. and chairman of the delegation of 25 executives. At a banquet at Dinard, Mayor Baker grandly announced that he would adopt a five-year-old French orphan who played the bass drum in a church band which entertained the visitors. When he found he could not take the boy home with him, Mayor Baker promised to send him $50 per year. Not to be outdone by this Portlandish gesture, Henri Prince, representing New York's Mayor Walker, proclaimed adoption...
...managerial committee is as follows: President, Stewart Scott, Jr. '33; Manager, R. S. Neff '33: Assistant Manager, John Drum '33: Costume Manager, Karl Adams, Jr. '33: Publicity Manager, J. M. Bradley '33: Assistant Publicity Manager, B. P. Rogers '33: Ticket Manager Samuel Spencer...
...crawled under icebergs to the Pole in 1947. It was equipped with hydraulic thermometer, lead sounding instruments, ascension shells to blast its way to the surface if necessary. Electric gills fed air to its 13 occupants (only one was a woman). A telegraph cable paid out behind from a drum to keep the Dipsey in touch with its Greenland base. By sheer "spellin' book navigation," the Pole was reached and buoyed with a seven-starred flag (by 1947 the U. S. had joined a hegemony of North and Central American nations). Leaving at the Pole the last whale...
...veterans. In the 1930 national convention of the American Legion, a motion to participate in the fight with the Disabled American Veterans of the World War and the Veterans of Foreign Wars was tabled without the rank and file having an opportunity to vote on it. But the bass drum player who got on the D. A. V. and V. F. W. bandwagon late, is credited by you as having made possible a larger loan on the Government promissory notes held by all veterans...
Where it comes from I do not know. Perhaps old in Cuba, perhaps from nearby Haiti whence cane cutters come annually. Lie awake in the towns of Haiti in the still of night and drum beats of similar rhythm float down to you from the hills...