Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Band, obligingly struck up "Moonlight and Roses." Its mournful notes may have been vaguely appropriate, but they did not seem so at the time. For the dulcet tones of popular melodies serve only to annoy the Stadium's frenzied occupants, whose demand will ever be for the trumpet's martial blare, and the cymbals' clash punctuating the tune of a familiar football song...
Erect and martial, President Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg arrived at Tannenberg, East Prussia, there to unveil a War memorial to the soldiers who fell in the historic Battle of Tannenberg...
Entirely aside from the bang of its gigantic drum, the martial melodies produced by the Purdue Band are reputed to rank in quality and quantity with the attemps of the country's best band...
Last week a board of inquiry report charged Captain Karns and Lieutenant Commander Dupree J. Friedell with negligence, ordered court-martial proceedings to be immediately instituted against them. Clark Cottrell, Navy Yard pilot, was guiding the Colorado when it grounded, but is a civil employe, not under Navy jurisdiction...
...clock yesterday morning Soldiers Field assumed a martial aspect superlatively compatible with its name, and the concrete walls of the Stadium witnessed a scene rivalling any gridiron contest in action and intensity, an exhibition which a spectator might have guessed to be either a celebration in honor of Lindbergh or a sham battle...