Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceiling," as thousands of Cantabrigians lined Massachusetts Ave, and Garden St. to cheer the marching columns. Highlight of the parade was the appearance of the U.S. Army band. The rest of the procession consisted of military and naval units, veterans organizations, floats, ponderous with symbolism, petite and hippy drum majorettes, and sweating, gaily-uniformed bands...
Like the big bass drum at the end of a parade, the nation's first amalgamation of maritime unions boomed closer to its first strike day, June...
...core was a drum-tight control of the Negro vote. For as Memphians reflect: "The nigger doesn't vote, he is voted." Thus, at any time, day or night, year in, year out, whenever Ed Crump pulled the lever of his political slot machine, he hit the jackpot-a clear majority of 40,000 to 60,000 votes, enough not only to inundate Memphis but to control Tennessee as well...
Freddy now dates this part of his life as "B.C.-before concerto," which means before the 1941 Sunday when he heard a broadcast of Toscanini and Vladimir Horowitz, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat. B.C. includes Freddy's boyhood, thumping a drum and selling musical instruments. For ten years Freddy Martin's band played prestige jobs like the Waldorf-Astoria, but never made much money at it. His recording of Tchaikovsky's Concerto put him into the big time, in the movies and on the air, and shot his income up to about...
...Vincent Sheean found more comfortable quarters in town, but they had to stop at the hostel to learn what was going on, and to clear and file their dispatches. There was no such thing as a scoop; all the news came out of press conferences and censorship was drum-tight...