Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short were discouraged by Wall Street bankers and blocked whenever possible by Japanese bankers when the short sale would have been for a white man's account. But irate Mr. Inouye charged in Tokyo that Japanese tycoons and banks managed to operate against their own currency to the tune of some $300,000,000, thus patriotically keeping most of the speculative profits in Japan...
...Hanover hills came the Indians yesterday to scalp a Crimson quintet to the tune of 30 to 13. The invading Dartmouth basketball team fairly took the Harvard hoopsters by surprise to run up the score early in the game, getting 16 points before the Crimson was able to recover itself sufficiently to score...
...Elis, chiefly because Coach Brice threw nearly his whole strength into the opening period and was swamped towards the end of the game. All Harvard rooters will watch with interest the debut of practically the same Blue team which the Crimson took into camp last year to the tune of 13 to 0, and which they hope will be polished off this season by a Harvard eleven put into the field not only by new coaches but with a sizeable amount of fresh material in it. On the other hand Yale will for the first time be having the assistance...
...Vallee he did not become a nation-famed crooner, but last week he waved a baton for a band composed of all the great New York banking houses. And sweet was his music to the ears of depositors in seven small broken banks in and around the city. The tune said they would get an immediate payment of 50 per cent of their $42,000,000 total deposits, more later. Maestro Gibson's once precarious, now potent Manufacturers Trust Co., backed with $20,000,000 provided by itself and the city's other big banks and banking firms...
...four days and four nights Prince & Princess Sukhodaya heard music, watched games. Pipe Major William Campbell, proud oldtime piper to Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle, played them a tune, recalled how he had played for the Prince's father, King Chulalongkorn. Their Majesties took many a picture; their adopted son Prince Chirasakti had two still and two cinecameras slung over his shoulders. They bought small-sized kilts, bonnets and sporrans, thought they would wait until they returned to Bangkok before putting them on. They went to concerts of old Scottish music, heard two ballad-operas. Smoking was forbidden...