Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rakish angle, he seems to be always in action. He usually flies his own Thunderbolt in hops to staff headquarters. Back at his own post, he wants a lot of his own staff around in the evening, insists on singing with a quartet although he cannot carry a tune...
Eugene Talmadge, tobacco-spittin', suspender-snappin' ex-Governor of Georgia, whose "white supremacy" spiels were his longtime political stock-in-trade, tooted a variation of his old tune in his weekly newspaper, the Statesman, urged Georgia's legislature to repeal the state's $1-a-year poll tax. Said he: "You will get a fairer, expression from the people. . . . There is a great deal of argument that the abolishment of the poll tax would put the Negro to voting . . . such is not the case. The Negroes as a class don't care to vote anyway...
...canon, or "round," is a composition in which different voices sing the same tune starting at different times, e.g., Three Blind Mice...
Three Months After. We went down roads along which we had advanced to the tune of cheers and applause three months before, but now there were not many people about and they no longer looked ecstatically happy, but only glum. Many, however, gave us the V sign and waved bravely. At dusk we came to a city. The buzz of the robombs was loud and clear over the hubbub of the traffic, and we saw a trail of red fire coming across the grey sky on the darkened city. It fell with a loud clatter and flames shot...
Only the Beginning. In Quebec draft-age youths paraded, sang A Bas la Conscription! (Down with Conscription!) to the tune of God Save the King, and tore down Union Jacks. But generally, French Canadians heeded the timely and wise admonition of Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis: ". . . Have respect for the laws." There were some disturbances elsewhere. In six British Columbia towns, drafted troops of the Pacific Command paraded noisily and shouted: "This is only the beginning. Blame the Government!" They had just learned they were to be among the first to go overseas. At Vernon, B.C., the soldiers mauled...