Word: drummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yells from the galleries and the sound of cracking peanut shells. It is a far cry from the old days when "Pygmalion" was such a success that it ran for two weeks, and the politest of Back Bay hand clapping greeted the first American performance of Pinero's "Big Drum...
...possible to prosecute another war successfully with the memory of the Great War's horrors so fresh in the minds of the people? War is always unthinkable-until it happens. Then propaganda is organized; patriotism is preached; popular apathy and aversion give way to the fife and drum; war is suddenly a noble venture. But take the United States and Great Britain, for example. Isn't war between these two foremost powers an impossibility? Again, war is always an impossibility-until it happens. In the case of Great Britain and the United States war might arise from this...
...That is only natural. But we also assume Harvard to have undergone adaptation to environment. A Harvard men must say "car" like a sheep with a cold in its nose, we think, simply because he likes to. Such a conception is false. Probably the Harvard man dislikes this snare-drum accent just as much as any one else, and yet is powerless to help himself because to make himself understood when strolling abroad among the winding alleys of Boston, he must talk that...
...chair is excellent, a bed less so because it takes practice to be at ease while in bed and with a relative stranger present. The patient fixes his eyes steadily upon an object placed so that he must strain his sight slightly. A monotonous sound, as from a metronome, drum or chant aids in putting him into somnolescence. The physician may pass his hands slowly and regularly before the staring eyes. But that is unessential. Mesmerists used to believe that waving fingers diffused a sort of magnetism into the patient. No one has proved that theory...
Next Saturday the Harvard players are doomed to being outdressed by the visiting band, wearing full military regalia, and boasting a seven foot drum. Harvard is content to forego the brass buttons and gold braid now that its representatives have added the polish of courtesy to the tunes that they have always rendered faithfully...