Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma, cattleman, Wild West showman; at Mulhall, Okla. where he once claimed 500,000 acres as his "Kingdom," independent of the U. S. He first introduced Will Rogers in a show at old Madison Square Garden, N. Y. City. In 1897 he arranged the McKinley inaugural parade, led by Drum-Major Tom Mix at the head of the Oklahoma Territorial band...
...Spitsbergen and about 400 mi. from the North Pole. Ice had broken off the submarine's diving fins. Nonetheless. Sir Hubert had water-filled her diving chambers, had nosed under vast cakes of ice. When she first scraped under, the hollow steel hull. Wilkins reported, "was a veritable drum or sound box with the faintest scratch of the ice sounding like the ripping of giant strips of calico. Heavy bumps set up tremors like the continuous shocks of earthquakes...
Biltmore Junta. In Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, at least, the revolution went on bravely. As in 1895 the revolutionists established propaganda headquarters in New York to drum up U. S. sympathy, collect U. S. dollars. Head of the Biltmore junta was an elderly, pachydermal gentleman named Dr. Domingo Mendez Capote, who blushingly denied reports that if & when the revolution was successful he might possibly be chosen President of Cuba. The Capote family and the other members of the Biltmore junta were not downhearted. To a steady accompaniment of ringing telephones and banging doors they stayed at their posts, denouncing...
...abrupt ending of the London debt conference gave Europe a chance to remember that Henry Lewis Stimson had originally gone to Europe to drum up enthusiasm for the League of Nations Disarmament Conference to be held in Geneva next February...
...blonde in others. In almost all of them she acts well and makes her dilemma seem both plausible and pathetic. Actor Hamilton is a little too unctuous as the salesman. Actor Gable, hitherto an impersonator of hard-boiled characters, seems slightly puzzled to find himself banging a Salvation Army drum...