Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Better Lookers. As Marie, an orphan who is adopted as a mascot by the regiment, Soprano Pons beats the drum, falls in love with a peasant who turns soldier so that he may marry her. A marquise claims Marie as her niece, carries her off to a chateau to make a lady of her-but not for long. The peasant, now an officer, turns up to claim Marie, with drum rolls and general rejoicing...
This week, at posts along the Atlantic seaboard from South Carolina to the Canadian border, soldiers of Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum's First Army fell in for special Armistice Day formations. To hardened Regulars, newly mobilized National Guardsmen, Organized Reserves, one-year volunteers-all the components of the new U. S. Army except conscripts-officers intoned an order-of-the-day. To many a top sergeant, Hugh Drum's dicta on how to train the new army sounded new & strange. Expecting that it would, Hugh Drum had pointedly commanded his subordinates to post his order where their...
...Hyde Park Harry Hopkins went out on the porch for a breath of air, happy to bursting point. The tension in the house had relaxed. Down the Albany Post Road tootled and whammed a fife, drum and bugle corps, behind them a straggling crowd of 500 villagers, carrying red railroad flares. Newsreelmen lit brilliant white flares, and Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park, first third-term President of the U. S., came out on the stone porch to joke with his friends. All day he had been jovially confident. That morning after voting (No. 292) at the town hall, accompanied...
...Captain McCrosson, in full Zouave uniform, was noted for spinning a bayoneted rifle like a drum major's baton, finally whirling it, bayonet down, on his outstretched palm...
Pretty Violet Mulvenna, 19-year-old American Legion champion drum-majorette, student at University of Mississippi, stepped off a train at Atlanta for the Georgia-Mississippi football game, tossed her twirling baton in the air. When it came down it broke her nose. Next day, between halves of the game (score: Mississippi, 28; Georgia, 14), doctors let her get up. Nose-patched, baton-twirling, she led the parade...