Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gathered from all states. A flock of automobiles was waiting to carry them down the streets, but the old soldiers laughed. "To hell with those things," they remarked; then they put on blue or light brown uniforms and marched afoot along Woodward Ave. Brass bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers who, instead of waving, had spit tobacco juice on the pavement...
...Munich, on his incognito arrival, he said to reporters: "In the words of the popular American song, 'Please go away and let me sleep.'" Later, on emerging from the Hofbrauhaus (brewery) he remarked: "I am having my first real rest in Germany." On leaving Munich, in a speech to reporters, he stated that "The German people . . . have a great future before them...
...sang a group of girls and boys, waving their hats or their handkerchiefs from the porch of Camp Roosevelt, when the Presi- dent arrived in Yellowstone Park. In response, the President bowed; Mrs. Coolidge bowed, smiled; John Coolidge bowed, smiled. The song's lack of variety was balanced by its peculiar pertinency; the President had left Rapid City the night before, suffering from indigestion but had now recovered...
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...year ago Harry Payne Whitney, generous turfman, sold four horses for a song, because Ogden Mills and Ogden Mills' sister (Mrs. Henry C. Phipps) were his good friends, because he wished them luck with their new Wheatley Stables. One of the four yearlings, a slender bay colt with a reckless eye, bore the name of Dice...