Word: drum
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...more often Miss Picker's details gently evoke of a certain shabby idealism: the women speak reverently of vitamins, reminisce about a sister's wedding, discuss soap opera without being able to remember the endings. That the pretty waitress should look back at being a drum majorette as the highlight of her life is a perfect touch...
...bearing Sir Winston's medals. Behind the gun carriage strode the top-hatted men of the Churchill family, led by his son Randolph. In a carriage lent by the Queen were Lady Churchill and her two daughters Sarah and Mary. The march was accompanied by music of the Drum Horse and State Trumpeters in their velvet jockey caps and gold-laced jackets. Band after band-ten in all-appeared at appointed intervals in order to keep the pace steady and slow all down the long line of marchers...
...dazzling show. The colors and sounds and faces seemed always the same, suspended for a brief moment, only to shift into new combinations, new designs, new moods. Scenes of high and solemn moment, as in the oath taking, swiftly changed to crowded dance floors, to prancing horses and strutting drum majorettes, to humming cocktail parties, wriggling teenagers, somber prayers, to ear-shattering brass bands endlessly playing Hail to the Chief, to laughter and cheers, to sentimental squeezes and unashamed tears...
...criminals will be safe from prosecution after May. Then responsibility for the nation's conscience will rest largely in the hands of Germany's postwar novelists, whose attempts to comprehend the unsavory past have produced such memorable fiction as Günter Grass's The Tin Drum and Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine. In The Clown, Böll tells the story of Hans Schnier, a young professional pantomimist who specializes (like his author) in satirizing German complacency. Schnier is in desperate straits: his mistress Marie has left him, his bookings...
Boston newspapers have only hinted at these goings on, but that college muffled drum the Harvard Crimson, crawled behind Mother's Skirts, figuratively pleading boys will be boys and Harvard lads are really little goodles...