Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard band increased in splendor and magnificence Saturday as it displayed new concoctions before the 45,000 at the Army game. For the benefit of the West Pointers, a human bullet was shot out of a huge animate machine gun with revolving drum...
Cornell's band, 20 men smaller than usual, will not feature a co-ed as drum-majorette, contrary to popular rumor. "The age-old tradition of Cornell is against having co-eds in the band," barked Captain Williamson, R.O.T.C. officer at Ithaca and band mentor. "There aren't any girls in the band, anyway!" Captain Williamson declined to reveal any more of the Big Red's musical plans than that they were "going through a lot of formations." Besides, he had to attend the rally...
Daughter of the Drum Major (Wed. 10 p. m., NBC-Blue). The Art of Musical Russia Opera Company in Jacques Offenbach's rarely performed opera...
...London, Publisher Gannett's candidacy immediately hit a snag. "Bang the trumpet and blow the drum," began a sarcastic attack in Sir Walter Layton's pro-New Deal Star. "For the first time in history, an American Presidential boom-or boomlet-has been started in London." In the U. S., Columnist Heywood Broun gave Candidate Gannett "Hindiana, Hiowa and Harkansas." In Manhattan, the Daily News chortled: "If Lord Beaverbrook has his way . . . and Roosevelt runs against him-boy, what a dish Gannett will...
...band played and the young ladies eyed their admirers. They danced, trained fighting cocks, learned to drink. Sometimes they got into little scrapes with the police or the townspeople: when Con Shepherd tried to jump his horse over the drummer in the band, and landed in the bass drum; when Grant knocked down a Mexican policeman. But such pranks hurt nobody; the Americans were popular, President Porfirio Diaz maintained order in the land. The Shepherd girls grew up and married Americans. The boys went to work: Alex in charge of the power plant; Grant in charge of one mine...