Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...became frantically moved, however, caution returned to Bavaria's Mussolini. Perhaps he recalled spending a year in jail after his attempted 1923 Putsch. Changing tune, he concluded: "Ours is a revolutionary party but what we propose to capture is the German soul! We do not need to make a Putsch to gain control of the government. That is not necessary! Control will come to us in a legal manner. That, my friends, is what our enemies fear...
...Yale, which have claim on him as a son, mix it up today in the Yale Bowl. "Time Out" is sure both teams will strive the harder, knowing that their pal Rudy is up there, somewhere, in the stands, singing, softly to himself the Maine' Stein Song to the tune of Boola, Boola, or vice versa .... Yale, incidentally, seems to have solved the problem that has bothered some of its teams in years which have not yet faded far into memory. Reports, perhaps not wholly true, have explained the ineffectiveness of the Elis in their objective games on account...
Since 1859 the French standard for A (pitch used for orchestra tuning, traditionally given by the oboe or clarinet) has been a tuning fork scaled to, vibrate 870.9 times per sec. at a temperature of 15° Centigrade.* Though it has never been adopted officially by international convention the French A has gradually obtained all over the world. Last fortnight Dr. Carl Maria Haselbrunner, editor of the Oesterreicliische Musikerzeitung and honorary president of the Austrian Musical Association strongly declared for such a convention. "There is a terrible chaos in tuning," said he, "a regular musical anarchy. And all because...
...present moment." ¶ Because pious Virginians protested that Marines guarding the President's Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held in the Marine mess hall. The President attended, heard Marines sing hymns to the tune of a small organ lent by the Y. M. C. A. ¶. The Hoover secretariat has long been troubled because it has not been able to build its "Chief" up with the sort of human-interest publicity which proved so helpful to Calvin Coolidge. Chief obstacle has been President Hoover...
Whether or not Composer Grimm knew it, Pundit Shaw is not without musical experience. He is at home with no instrument more musical than a typewriter, can barely carry a tune, but he once earned his living writing about music for his fellow-Irishman, the late famed Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor. Explains Shaw: "He made me musical critic quite frankly and explicitly ... to prevent my writing about anything else than music. My other writings were ruining his paper [The Star...