Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government builds and repairs theater buildings. Moscow's fantastic new Red Army Theater, which is shaped like the five-pointed Soviet Star, was built by the State to the tune of $9,090,000. The proudest two theaters in Russia, Moscow's Bolshoi and Leningrad's Kirov, were slightly damaged in the war and the State took this excuse to give them such renovation that, by comparison, New York's Metropolitan Opera House looks like an elderly duchess decked out in moth-eaten flannel underwear...
...yelling as they went. The horses, well fed at last, carried their heads higher and pulled with a firmer step. There was "acid in the air" and mean looks from the townspeople, but the jaunty invaders laughed them off. At York, General "Extra Billy" Smith changed the bands' tune from Dixie to Yankee Doodle, and even won smiles and cheers from the citizens when he made them a comical speech: the weather was too warm in Virginia, he said, so the Army had moved North...
...Familiar Tune. Up rose white-haired Dan Tobin, for 37 years the absolute boss of the Teamsters. He stuck out the majestic Tobin stomach, and ordered the waiters to clear out. Then he sat down again, and the show was on the air. When, at last, the Tobin gravel voice had stopped quivering the rosy Tobin jowls, and the six-minute ovation was over, the President spoke...
With relish Mayor LaGuardia recited Waxey Gordon's police record-14 arrests under seven aliases, and six jail terms. In 1933, when it was fashionable to convict racketeers for income-tax evasion, Waxey was given ten years. By 1942 Waxey was back, and in tune with the times; he was jailed for a year for running a black market in sugar. When Manhattan's police tapped Worldwide's phones, they were not surprised to hear the enterprising Waxey telling a friend: "I'm now in a swell thing . . . buying Government surplus business...
...lush, green valley near the South Pole (volcanic heat kept it warm). The valley was inhabited by civilized, seven-foot-tall penguins who lived in a "Penguinry" of neat stone houses. The grave "chairbird" of the penguin parliament waved his flipper at the explorer. A choir of tuneful penguins rippled off "fluting sounds" of welcome that reminded the explorer of the clarinet works of Johannes Brahms. One smart penguin soon learned to speak a sort of penguin-English. "Being a bird," he clacked, "of course I think we are the form in which Life is best expressed." The explorer soon...