Word: tune
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...President's Sunday-evening prayer-meetings" are poorly attended. It seems that Dr. Porter recently invited some "prominent gentlemen" to address an audience of "cultivated young Christian gentlemen." When the time came, only thirty-six cultivated young Christian gentlemen appeared, and to cap the climax they sang out of tune, - to the great disgust of the "prominent gentlemen." The correspondent of the Courant expresses a wish that "prominent men" - which seems to mean students as distinguished from gentlemen - would set the fashion of attending the meetings which the "President has done all in his power to make attractive...
...some old familiar tune...
That seems to sway in tune...
...paper hoops held by the Clown, with such agility that Diogenes was heard to observe, "If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Bucephalus." The Highland Fling performed on a tight rope by the nine Muses followed these equestrian feats. The band accompanied the dancers with the tune "One little, two little, three little Injuns," but we are sorry to say that premiere danseuse Terpsichore hardly did justice to her reputation...
Like the swift passing thought of a tune...