Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...south entrance of the palace, a huge young Galla lifted his open hand and struck the great dull-brown Negarit (Em-peror's) war drum. OMMMM . . . OMMMMM . . . Forty smaller kettledrums from the palace answered, rommo-mmommommommomm. The booming throbbed, swelled, seemed to shake the air. On each of the mountain tops that hang over Addis Ababa other drummers smacked their drumheads. The monotonous, terrible call to war spread out from the capital, from mountain top to mountain top, across the wild gorges, jungles and plateaus of Ethiopia, until it rolled into the capitals of the six great rases (princes...
...There were loud voices, there were louder glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing faces, and cracking smiles. There were great cascading bouquets, there were wall flowers and pansies. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud of a bass drum. There were broken hearts, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was a moonlite terrace, there were also chaperons. There were long embrassing conversations; there were short embracing silences. There were those who cut in; there were those who, most unfortunately, did not. There was an evening mist; there were...
...Zook-Rockefeller-Rainey Commission will begin with a survey of all the youth, recreation and health programs in the country, try to bring some order into them. To drum up interest it will hold public forum meetings and when it has made up its mind about improvements, it will establish demonstration centres to popularize them...
...Nilakanta Sastry 2 GB, Royal S. Schaaf '39, and Francis M. Schull 1G. Cellos: Paul A. Alexander '39, Arthur D. Gardiner '39, and Philip E. Morin '39. French horn: Sidney R. Ballou '35. Trombone: Russell B. Edmond '39. Viola: Eit Cantor 1L. Tympani: N. James Dain '39. Bass drum: Sherwood D. Fox '39. Librarian: Harold L. Golden...
...fault most likely to creep into pictures made on location comes from their producers' natural reluctance to throw away bits of local color even when these impede their story. Sanders of the River, consequently, is full of native war dances, canoe-paddling, realistic spear-shaking and drum-beating which, no doubt interesting in a travelog, have no place in this narrative. It is distinguished by Michael Spolianski's curious but usually effective musical score, by Paul Robeson's vocalizations of lyrics which sound alarmingly like U.S. college football songs, and by Negro acting which is no less genuine because most...