Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cases of bright green beer (artificially colored, brewed in Edinburgh), H. R. H. Edward of Wales and Prince George flew to Paris, there entrained for Santander, Spain, where they boarded the S. S. Oropesa for Bermuda, first stop before their whirlwind tour of Latin America. Their frank effort: to drum up more trade for British manufacturers...
What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
...birdlike Mr. Dunham. Premiere of The Tiger Smiles was held in Princeton at the handsome new McCarter Theatre. Not since the old casino burned has Princeton had a Triangle first night. Cantankerous graduates may not think the show so funny as Espanola (1922), so tuneful as Drake's Drum (1924), so beautiful as Samarkand (1927) but it affords a large quantity of near-professional entertainment. On tour during the next two weeks, The Tiger Smiles may be viewed in Columbus, Chicago, Milwaukee. St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore...
...eastern band. Twenty-nine letters were spelled out in the Yale game alone, the most ever formed by a Harvard band at a single game. At this game also the name of the Harvard captain was spelled out for the first time. Fifteen times during the season, Slade the drum-major as well as the leader of the band, sent the long silver baton soaring over the crossbar of the goal post and each time he gracefully retrieved it. The altitude record for baton throwing was set between the halves of the William and Mary game when Slade hurled...
Eighty-seven students were members of the organization this year, the largest number ever in a Harvard band. There were two ex-drum majors playing this year, Harold Holland 31, and F. L. Anderson 2G who has made the well-known arrangements for most of the Harvard songs. Anderson plays seven instruments and last year made a band arrangement for the New Hampshire University song, after he heard it whistled over the telephone by a New Hampshire graduate...