Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Clanking along through Indiana in a daycoach in the early 1890's, the conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra removed his cuff and jotted down on it a tune. A young journalist, who was spending his vacation traveling with the conductor and his orchestra on tour, asked for a copy of the air. At a hotel that evening the musician scribbled the song on a piece of notepaper, gave it to his admirer. The journalist liked it, learned to play it, rendered it so often that his friends later called it his song...
...troup. There really is no question about that. Why they ever had the name of the Lovely sisters thrust upon them is indeed hard to determine. Will Mahoney's best gag comes towards the end of the show when he dances on a xylophone and plays a tune while doing so. He is, however, entertaining at all times...
...whistled a much different tune from that of last Spring. In May and June, on his raceabout tour of Northern Italy, he hurled bombast from stumps and palace balconies, defied France, flayed other governments (especially Great Britain's) for clumsy mishandling of unemployment. But now, in October, his sap having cooled, II Duce spoke at calm, significant length...
...days not so very long ago the whole educational system from bottom to top was based on the assumption of individual similarity. . . The assumption was that the classical languages, mathematics, and a few other studies varying more or less from college to college would tune up the mind, so to speak, to concert pitch...
...donor of the Houses, upon a dais? Do the students also wish to be elevated to that dais, or do they admit that these people are slightly more important than they? If not, they had better begin at once to rear-range their ideas, because they are out of tune with the rest of mankind. I wonder if the editorialist realizes that in the English institutions after which these beautiful houses are modelled, it is the custom for the dais to be occupied by the men in authority? Or, by any chance, does our complainant feel embarrassed...