Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor is constructed in the middle of the main street, and a "boodle" table is set out, loaded with tempting refreshments. Promptly at one o'clock in the morning the white gloved hand of the cadet officer of the day goes up, and the insistent roll of a drum shatters the beauty of "Army Blue". The next day the Corps moves back to barracks, camp is dismantled, the "cows" come home from furlough, and the stage is set for another long battle with the Academic Department...
...Slade '32, this year's Harvard drum-major, should have become expert in the use of the baton as he has been practicing hurling the stick over a wire 21 feel high all this summer...
...tabloids, too, are silent on world affairs but largely through ignorance of the import of these stirrings beneath the diplomatic cloak of the earth. Yet in increasing number and steadily growing discord the thousand dissonant notes seem to be merging, threatening to break out swiftly with the thunderous drum roll...
...week, at which time the number of afternoons per week and time of practice will be announced. The veterans reporting were E. T. Gerry '31, H. I. Nicholas '31, Crispin Cook '32, W. F. Lupton '32, F. R. Nicholas '33, C. N. Bliss '33, St. John Smith '33, John Drum '33, N. W. Kimball '32, C. C. Rumsey '33, and Robert Gilmor Jr. '33. On the University team, six men have been given official ratings: Gerry, 5; Cook, 1; Lupton, 1; H. I. Nicholas, 1; F. R. Nicholas, 1; Kimball, 1. The University team will hold its practices on Soldiers...
...Edward of Wales has agreed to pay an official visit to Argentina and Brazil in March. Purpose of the visit: to drum up trade for British manufacturers in both countries. Last week he flew to Le Touquet. France, in his scarlet cabin Moth plane, played golf, was warned off a new course by one Allen Gault, greenskeeper. Suddenly recognizing H. R. H., Greenskeeper Gault suffered a mild attack...