Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. . . . No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around...
...urging of their union (C.I.O. United Auto Workers), all but 200 of the day shift stayed at work, even after the night shift came on. Since there was too little work for two crews, some workers played ping-pong and shuffleboard, danced to the music of piano, brass and drum. The union sent in enough sandwiches, pies, doughnuts, coffee and soda pop for a five-day siege. Some of the stay-ins crowded out on the balconies, hanging signs: "We've Got the Tools. We've got the Ability ... but We Ain't Got the Work." Below...
...Hear From Me," and Hampton's superb vibraphone work ably backed by the Symphony strings on "Moonglow." There is no denying Lionel's artistry on this instrument and it is unfortunate that he neglected it most of the evening in favor of one finger piano solos and noisy drum exhibitions...
...after Merlin's smashing entrance, the sport remained a parlor trick. In 1849 grand opera really put it on its wheels. For an ice-skating scene in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, the ballet wore rollers. Rehearsals were bruising-one ballet skater landed in the bass drum-but in London and Paris the scene was a hit. Skating became an international rage...
...watched the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena a few New Years' ago, you probably saw the Eberles, drum majors par excellence, strutting in front of the Stanford band...