Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of fatigue, Lewis continued his talk by telling of some Oxford students who came to hear him play at the Kit Kat Club in London. They had seen him in a play then running, and asked him to play a certain tune they had liked. "Why Do You Treat Me That Way?" was its name, they said. "After some little mental torture", Lewis said, "I gave up, when suddenly it occurred to me that the tune in question was 'How Can You Do Me Like You Do?' And that was my best impression of typical English humor...
...second act you will hardly be able to wait until you reach the lobby to give your own special version of it. And when you go home (the play has threoacts), the left hind wheel of the trolley, which will be flat, will rhythmically impress that tune on your soul, if you have one, for ever and ever...
...Palos went down river to Shanghai early last spring for overhaul and since then has never gotten further up river than Ichang, although she has been badly needed on the upper stretch, and has made several attempts. Chungking residents have a popular ditty to the tune of "Parlez-vous," the two essential lines of which...
...French Republic. Again the spirit of Locarno walks abroad and soon the movements of a symphony will bring again to mind the well cooked courses of the trout concerto. The wave of a French baton over a German score will add a pretty flourish to the hopeful tune of "Hands Across the Rhine...
Announced the critics: "The most successful translation since Hansel and Gretel . . . one stirring tune...