Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predecessors had understood. At his first stop, Fairbanks, the modern hub of the old, interior gold fields, he became aware of the Territory's attitude toward bureaucratic Government. He was greeted by a sign which read: "Welcome Lord of Alaska." But Alaskans soon began to change their tune...
...Birdwell immediately started lighting up the red fire for the De Mers-Willis girl ("Her glance is as predatory as some wild thing, her movements as lithe and bodily outspoken as those of some jungle creature."). Apparently no one had passed him the word that Esquire had changed its tune. Said Publisher Smart: "The Varga Girl gave you the idea she couldn't do anything but recline. The new Esquire Girl is more wholesome. She's the kind of a girl you'd marry, or try to. She'll be regular art-museum stuff...
With the aid of 19 passes and four errors, the Boston University Terriers took the Varsity nine into camp for the third time this summer yesterday afternoon to the tune...
Small (5 ft. 2 in.; 105 Ibs.), bushy-browed Peggy picks up dialects as easily as Alec Templeton catches a tune. Whenever she is assigned a new one, she talks on the telephone with a Hollywood bit-player who speaks the dialect, instantly echoes his accent and inflection. Now she has more alter egos than she can possibly keep at work. Solution: she is writing five new shows to keep herself busy...
Clementine & Alice. Moscow was a little behind the times. Soviet teen-agers were still busy with Chattanooga Choo-choo and Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. Russia's strangest importation from the West was the U.S. Marines' Hymn, sung to the tune of Clementine (which might give the Russians a dangerously erroneous idea of the Leathernecks). Latest favorite: the American Soldier's Song, which most Russians believe is constantly crooned by G.I.s; it is a speeded up version of There Is a Tavern in the Town, in which the tavern has become the scene...