Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtue of a resignation, W. B Tabler '36 will be the drum major of the Harvard Band this year. Tabler halls from Momence, Illinois, where he was a champion baton thrower. Last year W. J. Lloyd '33 was elected leader, but due to the pressure of his studies he was forced to resign...
...Hurley who yelled "Yah-hoo!" when the Oklahoma delegation filed by, onetime Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Veterans' Administrator Hines, Admiral Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, Oregon's Governor Meier and Portland's celebrated, bushy-browed Mayor Baker. In the line of march were clowns, drum-&-bugle corps, an automobile that had crossed the continent with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, a cage full of pretty girls on a truck, a French box car, lowans armed with ears of corn, cowboys from Wyoming...
When the Continental Congress established the U. S. Marine Corps in 1775, sharp-eyed Benjamin Franklin marked on the drums of the recruiting officers a rattlesnake with the inscription "Don't Tread On Me." The Marine Corps drums still bear that motto. In the act of 1798 which confirmed the Marines' organization, there was provision for a Drum Major, Fife Major, and 32 drums & fifes. In 1799 a band was formed at the Marine encampment in Philadelphia, then the U. S. capital. When the Marines moved to Washington, Drum Major William Farr began to give open air concerts...
...rustled in the dry breeze. Above them, a cloudless sky. Across the dusty desert road and up the steep ascent to the topmost mesa went scores of automobiles packed with curious white men & women. Their interest in the famed Hopi Snake Dance was whetted by the sound of muffled drum beats as they neared the grey mud-&-stone village of Hotevilla. But the Hopi, who had heard those drum beats all night, paid little heed to visitors. Their minds behind weirdly painted faces were intent on a thing savage, religious and remote. Their eyes were upon the parched earth...
...Mass., radio control man for National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WEEI. Radioman Baldwin, reported Colyumist MacKinnon, bought two white rats, one of which soon disappeared from its box in the Baldwin garage. It had been missing ten days when Mr. Baldwin suddenly beheld it perched impudently on a brake drum of his automobile. He grabbed, missed. The rat darted out of sight into the car's internals, Mr. Baldwin knew not where...