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...called "The Band of Gold," and has been recruited largely from the ranks of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The players (120 of them) are costumed in scintillating yellow uniforms. Their faces beam with merriment. They blow their horns with hilarious gusto. Their cheeks puff out like full-bloom peonies...
...blow to the silk worms...
Frost in Japan. Mulberry leaves to the value of 7,000,000 yen were destroyed. This was a big blow to the silk worms, whose staple food comes exclusively from mulberry leaves. Japan's Privy Council formally approved the Lausanne Treaty...
...Mason (Chairman), Professor Walter Henry Hall and Dr. Walter Damrosch. The result, just announced by Mr. Mason: "None of the contestants showed sufficient promise to warrant his receiving the reward." So there will be no young American Pulitzer scholar in music who will sail this Summer. This is a blow to native pride. But hundred percenters may point out that our young musicians may receive just as good-or better-training by patronizing American teachers, than by journeying across the Atlantic and squandering $1,500 in Paris, Munich or Vienna...
...passing of the Soldier's Bonus is to both democracy and party government the sorest blow of many years: To democracy, in that a popularly chosen group of law makers could be so blind, willfully or not, to the needs of the country at large, as to pass the bill; to party government, in that its principles, and with them its possible benefits, were thrown to the winds by the rank desertion of certain Republican congressmen...