Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...become a member of one of the better Princeton clubs, particularly how to greet classmates on the main campus thoroughfare, McCosh walk. "Doing the McCosh walk" advises young men to arch their backs, protrude their chests, ignore less fortunate friends while grinning servilely at prominent classmates. Incidentally, the tune is one of the liveliest in the show. Other appealing melodies: "Something in the Air" and "On a Sunday Evening" (recorded by Guy Lombardo's orchestra for Columbia...
...University team had a light practice yesterday afternoon, followed by a short talk by Coach Wachter, in which he went over the plays to be used today, and the mistakes of last Saturday's game. Although Harvard battered Boston. University to the tune of 44 to 24, the game tonight promises to be a close...
...worst beating any college has ever given Stanford." For your information: on Nov. 19, 1921, at Palo Alto, our Golden Bears-which the Press of that time had dubbed the "Wonder Team"-helped Stanford dedicate its brand-new stadium, barely completed on time for the game, to the tune of a 42-7 victory for University of California. Some 60,000 persons witnessed the affair. That was only nine years ago! The lineups...
...Herrings alive! Herrings alive! Fine Yarmouth bloaters!" cried lusty Yarmouth fisherfolk one morning last week as usual, then changed their tune to "Hurrah for th' Prince o' Wales...
...whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works of William Shakespeare are reputed ageless, most recent Shakespearean productions have been rigged out with modernistic settings, actors in mufti, sundry sensationalisms. In tune with her time, Jane Cowl has for her stage settings a huge book of Shakespeare which is unfolded to make various scenes. Her performance as Viola is lively, her grace and beauty are used to good effect. But Leon Quartermain gives the most worthy interpretation, bringing rich and affecting pathos and frustration...