Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighting Men. "The apparent unwillingness to put out information which is not favorable and laudatory is completely out of tune with their realistic attitude toward this war. . . . Our boys know we are not perfect. They know that our Allies are not perfect either. . . . The dangerous results of sugary and overdrawn propaganda should be apparent to us all. . . . Our fighting men are mad because of the false optimism of our news. . . . When suffering intensely they will hear a bland radio announcement saying 'The enemy is routed. Our losses are negligible. There is little if any enemy resistance. . . .' Greater frankness...
...importance of Naziism in the '30s, and today, is not only the millions of mice marching to the pipings of a demagogue. Naziism was in tune with Deutschland Über Alles-with the German superrace strains of Hegel, Nietzsche and Fichte; with the thunder of Wagner; with the rhythmic plans of the German General Staff first to dominate Europe and then the world; with the rondo movement of German Junkers and industrialists to seize world markets. Naziism was nourished and adopted by Army men like embittered, ever-dreaming General Erich Ludendorff, industrialists like Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp...
What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax. Within a few months record buyers were clamoring for Decca's later Bing Crosby version. Shrewd David Kapp barged wholesale into the hillbilly field, boomed local hits into national smashes by giving them successive recordings by bigger & bigger names. Thus, Crosby became the most popular singer of hillbilly as well as other popular music...
Dunster House and the Eliot V-12 Unit lead the House football league today by virtue of victories in the first two games of the season. The Funsters trimmed the Deacons of Kirkland, 26 to 6, while the Bunnies took over the Bellboys of Lowell to the tune...
...years that Anglicans have worked in New Guinea, he says, they have changed many cannibals into peaceful natives who like to drive motorcars, tune in on radios. With their own hands New Guinea natives built a cathedral at Dogura. Wand consecrated it four years ago. He has many a tale to tell about the native loathing of the Japanese and how New Guineans have risked their skins to save Allied soldiers from the enemy. Wand claims that this loyalty is due to the missionaries' work. Since the Jap came, native respect for them has risen even more, because...