Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign song of the G. 0. P., as announced last week in a speech at Boston by U. S. Representative Franklin W. Fort of New Jersey, Secretary of the Republican National Committee, will be to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." Mr. Fort did not state whether the words of the hymn would be sung, or a special lyric substituted. The words of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (first verse) are as follows...
When Candidate George of Georgia was named and the bands played "Dixie," Candidate Smith hummed the tune, smiling. Then Nominator Roosevelt began. Candidate Smith fingered his watch-chain, bit his cigar, blinked at the ceiling, took out the cigar, stared at the ceiling. The others sat rigid, occasionally stealing looks at him. During the directly personal part, about his "kindly heart" and understanding of "the average man," Candidate Smith looked overheated, troubled...
...Houston's 700 Texan patriots could play a tune on a fife; one could beat a drum. They pooled their resources and sounded like a regimental band as Houston fell upon the Mexican Santa Anna on the bank of the San Jacinto. Texan vengeance for the massacre of the Alamo was satisfied; Texan independence was guaranteed; Sam Houston returned to lay out the city which bears his name, to become President of Texas, U. S. Senator when Texas entered the Union. It was an important battle hymn the fifer played over and over again at San Jacinto. Its lyric...
...week hired Columnist Broun because he is a liberal with a following. Said Mr. Broun: "I am glad to be on the Telegram . . . here at last I have a spot where I can lift my voice without being bothered by the fear that perhaps I am not precisely in tune with the rest of the choir. I never did like part singing...
...Pierpont Blake will find opening before him a field of activity almost unlimited in extent, whose importance to the University cannot be exaggerated. The flexibility of the academic system has brought and will continue to bring far-reaching changes in the policies of instruction. To keep the Library in tune with the changing times will be the major portion of the task confronting the new Director...