Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal. Housed in a rectangular box only seven and one-half inches long, the device works something like a combination typewriter and adding machine. When a number turns up on the roulette wheel, the operator spins a knob on the machine to that number. This rotates into position a drum of type carrying all of the number's group affiliations. Then a lever is pressed and the data are printed on a roll of paper, visible beneath a mica window...
...most brilliant example of this modern school of choral music, which depends upon striking rhythm and purity of line for its effect, is Stravinsky's "Ave Maria." Steady, drum-like beat and sombre harmonies remind one of a Gregorian chant. In its simplicity lies its greatness...
Last week the No. 1 scandal in U. S. colleges was weightedly denounced. Walter Albert Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation, made this collegiate blackbirding the leading theme of his annual report. Dr. Jessup was astonished to discover that "drum majors and tuba players now find themselves possessed of special talents with a marketable value in the college field," that a college representative arriving at a high school learned he was the 83rd scout who had visited it that year. "In bidding for favor," scolded Dr. Jessup, "we are streamlining the job-our current models glitter with gadgets that smack...
...streetcar conductor, two merchants, three smartly dressed gentlemen. In the centre of the garage, into which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...
...stage Mr. Warning presents several pretty girls with various talents as singers, dancers, and even a drum major. The last, a Miss Betty Atkinson, recently twirled the baton for the University of Southern California. While her dancing tnd twirling are not extraordinary, her face and figure are a far cry and a welcome relief from "Harvard coods...