Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Depression threatened the Metropolitan she undertook another role, became chairman of the tin-cup campaign for which she was roundly publicized as "the savior of the opera." As an active worker for the Opera Guild she has continued to drum up trade for the Metropolitan. Last spring as a reward for all her efforts she was appointed to the Metropolitan's board of directors, made a member of the advisory management committee, both of which positions she intends to retain...
...plantation. Many chapters are titled with place-names, "Spaniard's Grave," "Millway Run," "The Copse," "The Ridge," "Sweetgum Spinney," "The Savannah," The hounds are catalogued, the author finding in the music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful...
Last December Representative Blanton of Texas wrote Secretary of War Dern asking to have Generals Brown, Drum, Malone and Hagood testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee, and requesting that they be not restrained by the War Department from making full and frank answers. General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, replied that the officers named "will be instructed by me in person that they are to answer you freely, fully and frankly...
...give his ideas concrete expression was his pupil, Mary Wigman, a tense, rawboned woman who was 27 before she decided on a dancer's career. Wigman soon claimed that she could feel herself "as one of the primal things, unable to speak life, only to dance it." To drum & cymbal accompaniment she danced in 1919 before an audience of the sick and neurasthenic at a Swiss Kurhaus. She looked scrawny and underfed, but she had developed her muscular control almost to perfection, danced with a strange violence, twisted herself to make harsh angular patterns, staring into space...
Into the patio of Palm Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...