Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadcast offers its audience some respite from the story the most enjoyable are those in which Bill Robinson demonstrates that he is still the ablest tap-dancer in the world, Bing Crosby sings I Wished on the Moon and Ethel Merman cavorts with a chorus of elephants to a tune called It's the Animal...
...published his first piece at 11. He married Anne Paul, a childhood friend who bore him two children. During his short life, Nevin studied continuously in the U. S. and Europe, turned out a constant stream of songs, piano pieces and small instrumental numbers?parlor music in tune with the times which brought him increasing royalties. An able pianist, he got out of his depth when he tried to compose a piano concerto. Melody was easy but Nevin never managed to master counterpoint or orchestration. To his father, on whom he drew freely for his studies and trips, he wrote...
...concession granted to the United States! . . . I gave the concession to Standard Oil." By this time Fat Chaps had arrived in French Somaliland and realized that he had embarrassed London by announcing in Addis Ababa that some of his backers are British. Said Promoter Rickett, changing his tune, "The capital of the African Development & Exploration Co. which received the concession is 100% American...
...Many Sets Tune in to an "Average" Program? According to Clark-Hooper, 9.1%. Thus ANPA arrived at the figure of 1,102,606 for the number of sets tuned in on the average program. That is 3.3% of all U. S. homes...
...Cecil B. DeMille movie. The most extraordinary fact about Director DeMille, however, is that, while the cinema has been progressing steadily toward sanity, he has made himself a greater figure in the industry as a freak in 1935 than he was in 1915 when he was in tune with...