Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British soldiers chant the words to the tune El Abanico, a Spanish march...
...that time it was 6:44 p.m., E.D.T. and the announcer broke in with the standard cliffhanger: tune in tomorrow and hear what happened. Next day, listeners learned that Jack had survived: he had taken the unusual precaution of packing a third parachute, which he whipped out just in time for a safe landing...
...indeed known Elliott Roosevelt more than somewhat. All the time Roosevelt had been out looking at planes, Hughes's Meyer had been at Elliott's elbow, pouring on the treatment. The night that the final Roosevelt recommendation went to Washington, Johnny had treated Elliott to the tune of $106.50 at Manhattan's swank night clubs...
...sold the tune to the girl," says Burrier, "and now all I have to do is put it over on a publisher." In reality, however, the road from Miss White's drawing room to the hit parade has already found some sympathetic professional ears...
...cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during last spring's smallpox scare...