Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Softly from Scotch bagpipes there sounded, last week, in the depths of Westminster Abbey, that lilting, infinitely plaintive tune, The Flowers of the Forest. One of many hundreds who harkened and wept slow, heartfelt tears was a great statesman who sometimes appears too slick, too superficial and too dapper...
...that of the man who led a peasant and proletarian army to the conquest of half of China (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926). The partial collapse of that avowedly revolutionary movement and its diversion into a moderate and narrower channel resulted, last week, in the whistling of a new tune by Marshal Chiang. Obviously he was bidding for support by the rich merchant class when he said...
...Jazz is nothing but a march tune, something used more than 2000 years ago, with occasional syncopations thrown in, played on unpleasant instruments, as insipid saxaphone, harsh trombones and trumpets, and ratting drums," was the opinion of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the Symphony concerts in Boston this week, as he addressed a group of newspapermen in his suite in the Ritz Carlton...
...slaves under the rule of tyrants, will tolerate such infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning that chemists would be arrested if they gave analyses of alcoholic beverages, aroused even more adverse comet. As for the individual officers, the World says that they have rummaged...
...said the girl, "the words don't mean much, but it's a pretty tune...