Word: jinglees
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The tune of Three Blind Mice became paired with Oh! Susanna as a major overtone of 1936 only by accident. The rhythm of Senator Steiwer's keynote phrase, "Three long years!" automatically evoked the old nursery jingle. Prompt to answer the Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve...
The jouncing cage came to a halt. There were running steps outside, a jingle of keys, a clang as the rear doors were opened. "Jump out, you fools! Jump!" cried a voice. The whites of 44 eyes shone in the fire glare as they looked back into a solid wall...
Ten days after Congress meets on Jan. 3 the Patman bill is scheduled to be brought to the House floor. Similar preferential position awaits the Bonus in the Senate, as the result of an Administration deal with Bonuseers on the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week it was reported...
In Lawyer Baldwin's file the committee's investigators unearthed a copy of a letter to the wife of Powerman Phillips, relating that as a boat gift Mr. Baldwin had sent her husband a bottle of Creme de Menthe with this jingle:
Ruddy, elderly, grey-haired Lawyer Baldwin, who is a past president of the National Publishers Association, onetime vice president of McGraw Hill Publishing Co. and longtime personal counsel to the late Charles Francis Murphy, Tammany boss, was not content to leave his Creme de Menthe jingle as his sole recorded...