Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...headed by Defense Secretary George Marshall, Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, four state governors, 15 generals, two admirals and seven former American Legion commanders, jammed into Dawson to pay their respects to big Erle and watch a two-mile-long parade which included everything from fancy-gaited horses to drum majorettes who, on a chilly afternoon, wore more goose pimples than clothes...
...borrowed the tune of a Rabelaisian old ditty called The Tailor's Boy, and given it new lyrics. The teaser: Grean's storytelling lyrics never do specify what "the thing" is; they just pause while Singer Phil Harris suggestively waits for three resounding booms of the bass drum. Sample...
What in the world was the thing? Pop music fans didn't care, so long as they could come in with the bass drum...
Head Drillmaster Gordon D. Henderson '51 said last night that band members did not discover the rain's damage until drill practice Wednesday. Soon after, the Band's truck carried to repair shops 15 clarinets with cracked necks, four tubas with rusted valves, three snare drums and one bass drum with broken cowhides, and several damaged saxophones and piccolos...
Radcliffe Student Council yesterday announced the chairmen of committees of take charge of the annex's annual "Drum-beats and Song" concert, scheduled for early in March...