Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reunioners can watch the Phi Beta Kappa fife-and-drum parade and exercises at 11:00 in Sanders Theatre. In the afternoon, beginning at 12:05, is the traditional Memorial Service for deceased class members...
...save mining machinery, possibly produce lighter oil for the pipelines. In Denver, the Oil Shale Corp. has a small new pilot plant designed to test the Swedish Aspeco retort process; this distills out the oil by whirling crushed shale mixed with superheated porcelain and aluminum balls in a rotating drum, also by-produces natural...
...space is taken up by a litter of objects that Picasso collects compulsively, objects that may set him off on a new theme or be incorporated into a new sculpture - a hollow elephant's foot filled with pebbles, a bird cage containing two parakeets, an African drum, faded flowers, a life-sized wooden crocodile, a pile of hats ranging from Chinese coolie to carnival papier-mache. "There are vitamins even in garbage," Picasso insists...
...Wonderville Susan met droll, cantankerous Mr. Pegasus, whose elaborate Cartoon-a-Machine grunted out a canned Terrytoon. In the Foolish Forest she met an all-animal orchestra which included Wolfgang, the violin-playing bear, flop-eared Gregory, the rabbit flutist, and Bruce, the world's only drum-beating gopher-all ingeniously manipulated by wires backstage. Pegasus baited the conductor, Caesar P. Penguin: "He's the world's worst orchestra leader." Said Caesar: "This is not kind. In fact I am going to take umbrage; sometimes I have a headache and I take umbrage." While Caesar took umbrage...
Bathed in an amber jungle glow, Caribee Joe writhed about his bongo drum. Suddenly, out of it slithered a sophisticated lady named Madame Zajj, and the blue moods of the orchestra panted toward violent climaxes. The show, U.S. Steel Hour's A Drum Is a Woman, was Jazzman Duke Ellington's most ambitious project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen. In fact Ellington's "allegorical tale of the origins of jazz" was a pretentious mishmash of primitive rhythms, pop tunes and sensuality. The sum of Drum...