Word: baton
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...ground and crowded into the aisle down which, as Sir Henry bowed, a platoon of Welsh bagpipers marched with a strump of drums and a squealing strathspey. Behind Sir Henry's head the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes beamed at each other. He lifted his baton...
...cannonade of a thunderstorm whose salvos rocked high heaven and shook the windows of the church wherein burghers and visitors had gathered to hear the trombone choir and the local soloists deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth of demons. Conductor Wolle brought down his baton with the air of a man casting...
...interdormitory chorus singing contest resulted in a victory for the Smith chorus. Professor R. B. Merriman '96 presented the winning chorus with a silver trophy which will be kept in the Smith Halls Common Room. R. C. Berresford '28, who conducted the Smith chorus was presented with a baton...
...college songs, folk songs, and other popular tunes, from which three will be chosen for the contest. The prize awarded to the winning hall will be a jeweled silver cup, now in the possession of Smith, while the leader of the winning hall will receive a silver ornamented baton. President Lowell will make the presentation of the prizes...
Last week, arrived in the U. S. 45 members of the National Polish Symphony Orchestra. Under the able baton of Stanislaw Namyslowski, they began giving a series of concerts in the U. S., playing the works of such Polish masters as Moniuszko, Joteyko, Moszkowski, Moussorgsky, Rozycki, Nowowiejski and Powiadomski...