Word: tun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the game the members of the band will spell out the letters of HARVARD, playing a different tune with each letter. "Our Director," "Soldiers Field," "Gridiron King," "10,000 Men," "Onward to the Goal," and "Score," a tun written especially for Yale games, will be played in that order. The band will then spell out ELI in script, and form an II facing the Harvard stands...
From Fogg Museum itself a number of loans have been made. Prominent are two fragments of fresco from a cave at Tun Huang in Western China:--a Head of a Bodhisattva, and Three Old Men. These two paintings have that strange, unmistakable violet hue which results when the flesh tints have faded. From Mr. Warner's own collection a number of items are being displayed. In addition to a Japanese priest's mask and two gilt bronzes, there is a T'and painting (or print) of the priest Hsuan Tsang, carrying on his back the Holy Books that brought Buddhism...
...Falstaff o'erstrides the play. Unknightliest of knights, a "tun of a man," a "huge bombard of sack"-guzzler, lecher, liar, braggart, coward, thief-he is like some centrifugal force overcoming gravitation. Far from being a villain, he is the most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting...
Meanwhile the Italian press in effect screamed "TUN-E-E-E-SIA!" with one regimented voice; and owners of French newspapers each screamed his individualistic brand of outrage...
...hubbub was now indescribable, for in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies women were screaming not only "TUN-E-E-E-SIA!!!" (the Deputies screamed nothing else), but also the names of three other French places: "Corsica!" "Nice!" "Savoy...