Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With shapely Drum Majorette Yvonne Stone and stately Pennsylvania...
Democrats. Most Democratic hopefuls, numbed by the President's complete command of the 1940 nomination, contented themselves with bumbling. John Garner said nothing, mourned the ups & downs of Washington's ball club. Paul McNutt rolled back from a national tour still beating a lonesome drum. Jim Farley shook postmasters' hands. Burton K. Wheeler took a die-hard stand for Isolation. Cordell Hull, as usual, sawed wood...
Mckinley is my mind one of the host drum men in the country. Possessing a technique that rivals Krupa's in its crystal clarity, it seems to me after hearing him not only with Bradley but with the Jimmy Dorsey band that his ideas are more original and more strikingly Illustrated than those Jungle Gene." Plus the fact that McKinley is somebody's gift to a brass section. While other drummers are pounding away at just keeping good steady time, McKinley is backing the brass on every lick they play and thus adding immeasureably to the lift of the hand...
...meeting, according to the executive committee of the H.S.U., is meant to be a "ringing demonstration for peace," necessitated by the "steadily rising tempo of interventionist drum-beating...
...Interventionist Drum-beating...