Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perpetrators of the latest threat to the nation's sanity are two Hollywood radio musicians-Pianist George Tibbies and Guitarist Ramey Idriss. Starting with the laugh-to the tune of the trumpet call used to round up musicians at rehearsals-they batted out both tune and lyrics in half an hour. They sang it over the phone to Producer Walter Lantz, whose animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies...
...sinecure, first established in 1351. Its traditional duties involve managing royal estates, making local appointments to the tune of a couple of hours a week. Former holders: Winton Churchill (1915), Sir Oswald Mosley...
...unsuspecting radio listener (say, on Mars) who happened to tune in on the Earth last week would have been struck by a peculiar hissing sound. It was a form of static caused by the word "peace" being fervently repeated by millions from Minsk to Minneapolis. Contrary to what the listener might conclude, the phenomenon did not mean that peace was any nearer, or that anyone could relax. In fact, the more people sat back in the belief that peace on earth was just around the corner, the nearer the world would...
...battle cry: "Women of the world, unite!" Beneath two white cardboard doves, 31 ladies representing 52 nations met to compare notes on women's rights. Another chief purpose: to prepare a campaign against warmongers in the U.S., Britain and "the countries which dance to their tune...
...Cunningham, drove to the airport in his bullet-proof Daimler. He flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father's sword he has girded on, and his wild harp slung behind...