Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When he ran short of cheap "sugarhead" moonshine to fill a big order consigned to Atlanta's Negro slums, 360-lb. Bootlegger John R. ("Fat") Hardy whipped up a substitute. Police said that he bought a 54-gallon drum of poisonous methyl alcohol, often used for hot-rod fuel, and mixed it with well water, peach flavoring, regular moonshine and a "beading oil" calculated to make it foam when shaken. Seventyseven gallons were delivered. Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men & women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions...
Died. Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum (ret.), 72, who as Pershing's Chief of Staff helped chart allied victory in World War I, was in charge of security and blackouts on the East Coast in World War II; of a heart attack; in his office in the Empire State Building, of which he had been head since 1944; in Manhattan...
...Drum Taps, by Walt Whitman (Nov. 22, 1865): "Mr. Whitman . . . has no ear, no sense of the melody of verse . . . fortunately [he has] better claims on the gratitude of his countrymen than any he will ever derive from his vocation as a poet . . . His duties in the hospitals at Washington during the war will confer honor on his memory when Leaves of Grass are withered and Drum Taps have ceased to vibrate...
...film also offers some exceptionally rewarding ones-ranging from the stylized interlude of an ancient Indian fable, with Radha as its gracefully dancing heroine, to a brief, charming scene in which a kite cavorts crazily in a bright blue sky to the perfectly timed accompaniment of a native drum and pipe...
...drum-roll effect in Haydn's Symphony No. 103 ("The Drum Roll") was not Haydn's idea, but the work of a later innovator, identity unknown...