Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From its inception, the drum boasted a colorful career. It was obtained from the Associated Harvard Clubs, who in 1927, told the Band to buy itself a drum. The bandsmen bought a drum indeed--the biggest in the world...
...Band's eight-foot bass drum died yesterday...
...fortunate results of the up-dated version is the addition of a blowsy friend for Carmen, a part which Pearl Bailey puffs out to her own talents. Miss Bailey "Beats Out That Rhythm On a Drum" and rolls out the film's few comic lines. She is the only member of the all-Negro cast to use her own voice, which is as it should...
...Carringtons have come to depend on the drum. At 5:30 in the morning the mission awakes to it (da dee da da dee da da dee da-sukóla sukóla sukóla-wash wash wash). Often when her husband is in the jungle, Mrs. Carrington beats out a quick tattoo to summon him back to lunch (da da da da dee dee da dee . . . bosongo olimo konda...
Crocodile & Leopard. How accurate is drum talk? Wrote Correspondent Shenker: "The drums of the village three miles across the river are heard regularly at the Yalemba mission, and the native pupils are always coming up to Carrington with messages from the other side. One reported: 'My father is on the other side with food.' How did he know? 'The drum said so.' Just to make sure, Shenker asked Carrington to station two drummers 200 yards apart and put them to a severe test: "The sentence I dictated to Carrington was: 'The Giants beat the Indians...