Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot bass drum in the Harvard band is a phony," so runs the story in the current issue of the "New Yorker," and the writer proceeds to claim that "the boom-booms you hear come from a little bass drum alongside...
...know, Slick as in slimy." Slick prosay that his real name is Wilmore. A shriek of laughter came from the five saxophonists. Unperturbed, Slick said that cold chills came over him when he heard Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Asked if he didn't lose weight after his torrid drum solos several times a day, Slick said no, he seemed to gain instead...
...music swelled and filled the small room with a throbbing harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...
...them. Hours passed, 100 Army planes droned overhead, the crowds heard 493 bands, saw 800 floats, gasped at a Negro Legionnaire who marched on two padded stumps cut off at the knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair. Typical sights: Chattanooga's Drum and Bugle Corps in old khaki trench uniforms, spattered with prefabricated mud; autos disguised as French locomotives and freight cars ("40 hommes, 8 chevaux") and Paris taxicabs; one-man bands; Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves with his Wife-Senator Dixie Bibb Graves; 30,000 paraders from Pennsylvania; 1,200 Legionnaires...
...second wave of Japanese came over, this time from the northwest, bombing the Drum Tower residential section of China's capital. In a total of four hours' bombing, wave on wave, Japanese airmen dropped everything from enormous 500-lb. explosive charges which destroyed whole blocks and rocked the earth, to small, incendiary bombs no bigger than hand grenades, which ignited everything they touched that could possibly be set afire...