Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crossing her eyes and making the faces that she had found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls: "I can't count the number of dark closets Ros locked...
...served as head drummer boy, after "knocking the block" off another drummer boy. Albert was fitted with a blue uniform and shipped to Tennessee in time to play his drum in battle; he went along when General George H. Thomas beat Hood's Confederates in the Battle of Nashville. He was mustered out the next year, one of nearly 2,000,000 Union veterans. He became a wood turner, worked quietly at his trade for 65 years, and retired...
Members of the Band last night were vainly searching for the large band drum which mysteriously disappeared yesterday. Two girls, connected with Friday's 'Cliffe production of Drumbeats and Song, reportedly took the drum yesterday to aid in a publicity campaign...
...announcement of the four-bit board cut, Mr. Heaman spoke generously about students voluntarily limiting food and juice portions. In return, students can at least expect cooperation when they legally leave Cambridge for a few days. No drum rolls or bombast is needed. The secret order should rescind itself just as quietly as it came...
...portable "Electro-Sonic" washing machine: a foot-high aluminum cylinder with an electrically activated heart. The heart's beatings create sound waves too high for the human ear to hear. The waves ripple through the wash water, driving soapy jets through the tightest-woven cloth. There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes. The machine, says Fairbanks Ward can wash its own weight (14 lbs.) in clothes at one time...