Word: drummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...northeast shore of Lake Michi- gan they say (some Indians do) that there is a drum of the Manitou that sounds whenever the Lake takes a life. If so, the Manitou's drum sounded 52 times one night last week...
...announced Saturday, the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs will appear in joint concert on Friday, November 22, in Sanders Theatre at 8.30 o'clock. On that occasion the Harvard singers will offer "Drake's Drum" by S. Coleridge-Taylor, choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Ruddigore", Brahms' "Marching", two Russian folk songs, and Harvard football songs...
...alley of whips the delinquent must march, not too slowly, or a soldier who follows will bayonet him in the back, not too fast, or a second soldier who precedes the delinquent will jab him in the ribs. Whips fall in time with the brisk beating of a drum. Sonorously War Minister Julius Goembos read out to Parliament the preamble to his flogging bill: ". . . Whereas the penalty of imprisonment completely failed of effect in wartime, as the soldiers preferred a well-warmed prison to the discomforts of the trenches, now therefore. . . ." They will be flogged for offenses punished at present...
...order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy, the Department of Justice undertook a separate investigation of William B. Shearer, self-styled "big bass drum," big-Navy lobbyist...
Bonaparte once said to a musician: "There is only one musical instrument I know that never gets out of tune?that is the drum...