Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hyde Park Harry Hopkins went out on the porch for a breath of air, happy to bursting point. The tension in the house had relaxed. Down the Albany Post Road tootled and whammed a fife, drum and bugle corps, behind them a straggling crowd of 500 villagers, carrying red railroad flares. Newsreelmen lit brilliant white flares, and Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park, first third-term President of the U. S., came out on the stone porch to joke with his friends. All day he had been jovially confident. That morning after voting (No. 292) at the town hall, accompanied...
...Captain McCrosson, in full Zouave uniform, was noted for spinning a bayoneted rifle like a drum major's baton, finally whirling it, bayonet down, on his outstretched palm...
Pretty Violet Mulvenna, 19-year-old American Legion champion drum-majorette, student at University of Mississippi, stepped off a train at Atlanta for the Georgia-Mississippi football game, tossed her twirling baton in the air. When it came down it broke her nose. Next day, between halves of the game (score: Mississippi, 28; Georgia, 14), doctors let her get up. Nose-patched, baton-twirling, she led the parade...
...Negro band jigged past, stepping high & handsome, swinging out martial music. The crowd relaxed. On came floats, decked with damsels; band after band after band; stunts, leaping cars, clowns, flags, hundreds of booted, satin-clad drum majorettes, strutting, cartwheeling, trucking to the swing of ever more bands-400 of them. There were Indians, Zouaves, a four-year-old and a 60-year-old drum majorette; a blind veteran with a Seeing Eye dog; Rudy Vallee, "Bojangles" Robinson, a sign reading "America-Love It or Leave It"; a Brooklyn contingent bawling "To hell with the guys who brought their wives...
...eared, hot-eyed, Communistic little Vicente Lombardo Toledano was squeezed out of the secretaryship of the Government-supporting CTM (Confederation of Mexican Labor), probably to be replaced by non-Communistic Fidel Velásquez. Organizer of the CTM in 1936, nimble-minded Lombardo returned from Russia beating the Stalinist drum, vigorously antiFascist. When Moscow shifted so did he, screaming denunciation of the U. S., President Roosevelt, Great Britain and the Monroe Doctrine without losing a beat. Four months ago, under pressure from President Cárdenas, he changed horses again, unblushingly declared: "There was never truer friendship between North American...