Word: fife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night the village fife & drum corps, after band practice, stopped in front of the Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...
...Houston's 700 Texan patriots could play a tune on a fife; one could beat a drum. They pooled their resources and sounded like a regimental band as Houston fell upon the Mexican Santa Anna on the bank of the San Jacinto. Texan vengeance for the massacre of the Alamo was satisfied; Texan independence was guaranteed; Sam Houston returned to lay out the city which bears his name, to become President of Texas, U. S. Senator when Texas entered the Union. It was an important battle hymn the fifer played over and over again at San Jacinto. Its lyric...
Married. Rear Admiral Andrew Theodore Long, U. S. N., 61, onetime (1922-23) commander of the European Fleet, recently appointed chief naval adviser of the American Delegation to the Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Geneva; to Mrs. Viola Vetter Fife 37, of Manhattan; in Manhattan...
...Wayward Man," one learns of the more truthful elements. In this story, Mr. Ervine has vividly painted the dirty forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole of the time his ship was beating round the Horn. And not only at sea, but on land is the sailor's life vividly described in his dirty lodgings and carnal relations in a house of rather poor repute...
...Would it be possible to prosecute another war successfully with the memory of the Great War's horrors so fresh in the minds of the people? War is always unthinkable-until it happens. Then propaganda is organized; patriotism is preached; popular apathy and aversion give way to the fife and drum; war is suddenly a noble venture. But take the United States and Great Britain, for example. Isn't war between these two foremost powers an impossibility? Again, war is always an impossibility-until it happens. In the case of Great Britain and the United States war might...