Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a bargain-basement attack on the Statler's powder rooms. They had somehow swept 25 non-Kunkel ladies along into the dining rooms with them, thereby complicating the seating arrangements and causing some bad tempers. But when Congressman Kunkel reappeared they immediately and happily sang, to the tune of Bell Bottom Trousers...
Chile's old guard had long regarded ever-smiling President Gabriel Gonzÿlez Videla as a playboy. They made pointed remarks about his summer custom of riding a bicycle in shorts, sniggered discreetly when he tumbled into the river while boating. But last week the tune changed. Even rightist papers ran friendly stories, and printed such folksy notes as an item regarding his visit to the movies with his handsome, blonde wife Rosa and teen-age daughters Silvia and Rosa. The reason for this new friendliness: Gonzÿlez had turned his back on the Communists...
...manufacturers' official position was that a high hide price and high wages did not add up to price reductions. But privately they whistled a different tune. They were not so sure that hides would stay up (they have already dropped some) with cattle slaughter 35% above last year. Nor could shoe prices stay high if sales continued to drop. Said one retailer: "Shoe prices will be 20% lower by July...
George Mahon is a 30-year-old songwriter from Glasgow who cannot read music. But he can hum a tune and rhyme a verse, and a month ago he hummed into a recording machine, packed the record and a verse to go with it off to a publisher. Adele England, creator of steps for the Lambeth Walk, which swept England in 1938, heard it and devised a courtly old-world dance to match...
...concert reached a terrific climax with the coming of Billie Holiday dressed in a dazzling evening gown. Each time after her thin, vibrato-less voice had gone through its intense phrasing of a gaunt little tune like "Good Morning Heartache" the crowd clapped ardently and stamped their feel. Finally she did a simple, stark presentation of "Strange Fruit," which carried more punch than Lillian Smith's novel, and then she disappeared despite her howling admirers. They stamped, and shricked, and ranted, and raved. Finally Louis, anxious to get on with the show, said, "Take it easy, she's just gone...