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Word: tune (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shillelagh, Top o' the Morning carries a top-heavy complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...London theater last week a quartet of actors, togged out as Prime Minister Clement Attlee with his Ministers Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison, sang a doleful parody of a tune from Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Gravel for the Wheels | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson noted that the Moscow Peace Conference seemed out of tune with Russia's warlike threats against Yugoslavia (see above). "Of course, they will try to make out that this saber rattling is really the cooing of the dove," he explained, "but the dove seems to have a somewhat sore throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Samovar to Tula | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Handyman. In Spokane, Disc-Jockey Robert Swartz, who had offered to do any odd jobs for listeners recognizing a popular tune played backwards, faced the prospect, after 18 people guessed right, of having to roof a house, iron some shirts, mow a lawn, repair a fishpond and weed a strawberry patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...squealed a few notes. Hefty Morton H. Petrie, salesman for a candy company, strapped on his whip drum and knocked off a couple of tiddybums, tiddybums. Shrieking pipes and throbbing drums in the hands of 60 middle-aged musicians swung informally into The Hootchy-Kootchy, Little Egypt's tune at the 1893 World's Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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