Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S., plus pickets from the American Veterans Committee and other organizations, paraded in front of Carnegie Hall with placards (GIESEKING PLAYS TONIGHT-WILL ILSE KOCH PLAY SATURDAY? GIESEKING PLAYS TO THE TUNE OF 6,OOO,OOO MURDERED JEWS, etc.), the concert was canceled. A sellout crowd of 2,760 was turned away. Gieseking flew off for Paris...
...Many of his songs, like Night and Day, favor a long melodic line that breaks out of the traditional four-measure bounds of the popular ballad. He can write gaily, in complicated rhythms (as in Anything Goes). He can match a pointedly off-color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine, I've Got You Under My Skin, In the Still of the Night...
Pond, who as Agent of the Class of '21, collects money from the Class for the Harvard Fund, said yesterday that the University has suffered "to the tune of a good many thousands of dollars" from "general alumni reaction on this pink question...
When Queen Ingrid came on the air, she revealed that all her children have inherited their father's musical talent. "Even Anne-Marie," said the Queen, "has been able for fully a year to hum the tune of the trooping of the colors." The Queen told of her daily round of duties, adding: "However busy we may be, we always manage to be together at teatime...
There was more to the argument over high profits than that. To step up production to meet the gargantuan demand, industry had expanded its plants to the tune of $18.7 billion during the year. Much of the expansion had been bought with profits and reserves, because there was a grave shortage of risk capital to finance it. As Jersey Standard's Gene Holman said: "Without our high profits we couldn't have expanded the way we did." The oil industry, which had rolled up the "biggest profits of any industry ($2 billion), was a classic example...