Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major-league baseball game played under floodlights in New York City.* With his customary extravagance, Larry MacPhail had made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked "Play ball." The visiting team was the Cincinnati...
Press reports that 62 servants had been dismissed from Whitemarsh Hall, mogul-mansion (272 rooms) of the late, drum-beating Philadelphia financier, Edward T. Stotesbury, brought a disdainful disclaimer from stately Mrs. Stotesbury: Said she: "I personally have not discharged any one, nor do I intend to. The responsibility is in the hands of my co-executors...
...blue-book gloom and the lecture-hall mold was scattered to the four winds, when instead of hearing the liturgical voice, entoning "gentlemen, you have five more minutes." they saw drum majorettes tripping down the pavement with a stately following...
Last December one member of the Goncourt Academy died, and the remaining nine, most of them well above 70, disagreed about his successor. Candidates included Humorist Tristan Bernard, Novelists Colette and Jules Romains. But for 23 years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing...
...north, on the road between Kissimmee and St. Cloud, a motorcade of some 50 cars met the State's Junior Senator Pepper, escorted him with honking horns to St. Cloud's city limits where he was met by the town's band and drum corps. From St. Cloud, the motorcade, swollen to 250, followed the Senator around Polk County through Davenport, Haines City, Auburndale and Winter Haven to Bartow where Claude Pepper climaxed a typical day by announcing to a crowd of 2,000 that he would vote for the Townsend plan even if the President vetoed...