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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jerome David Kern, composer of Who, Kalua, Old Man River, etc. etc., and publisher of many another lip-to-lip tune, is a wealthy man who lives comfortably in Bronxville, N. Y. But not until last week was he a free man. Mr. Kern's 44th birthday fell last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kern Collection | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...changa ma music? Every year. I keepa all new pieces in ma machine. She goodda machine, too. Buy her in New York long time ago. Try crank her. See, very easy," but the CRIMSON man disliked the task, and released his grip thus abruptly ending the syncopated tune of "Yes Sir, that's my Baby", one of Joe's latest "hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joe the Organ-Grinder Admits Superior Eleemosynary Spirit in Girls--His Horse's Left Hind Foot Once a Target | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...could drop the coins nearest to the horse's left hind foot. Another time Joe did a prosperous business when two rival gatherings in a dormitory tossed him coins, one paying him to "take the money and get the H--out," the other, "to play another tune." In spite of the apparent prosperity of his business, however, Joe denies that he is like other organ grinders who are reputed to own vast tracts of real estate. No, Joe is not a rich man,--so he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joe the Organ-Grinder Admits Superior Eleemosynary Spirit in Girls--His Horse's Left Hind Foot Once a Target | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

TIME seldom overlooks a bet; but I think you fell down this time to the tune of the above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Noah MacDowell & Co.: Noah MacDowell Jr.; Charles H. Sabin Jr., son of Chairman Charles H. Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Co. (see p. 50) ; Allan A. Ryan Jr., son of Stutz Cornerer Allan A. Ryan, grandson of the late Thomas For tune Ryan; forming a new house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Honors List | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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