Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune with the Constitution the bang of Vice President Curtis' gavel ended the session. It and Speaker Longworth's gavel-bang at the other end of the Capitol also ended the Congressional careers of 15 Senators and 78 Representatives who were either defeated in the November elections or voluntarily retired. It ended Big Business' fear of a special session. It ended legislative hopes embodied in some 23,000 measures that did not pass. But, most newsworthy, it ended a one-man filibuster that had tied the Senate into a knot of impotence all that morning...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden told his country last week that the words of "God Save the King" are unimportant. "The real thing," he said to the House of Commons, "is the tune...
...this tune an Englishman and an American may sing, both correctly, as follows...
...last half of the second stanza, which last week caused Mr. Snowden to take refuge in the tune, is (when mis chievously interpreted, as no loyal sub ject should think of doing) an explicit intimation that the King is not even smart enough to get himself out of petty political scrapes...
...because the two songs are sung to the same tune that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was heckled last week in the House of Commons about "God Save the King." As a matter of fact the former German anthem (until 1920) was also sung, as is the present Swiss anthem, to this same convenient tune. (It was probably composed in England by one Henry Carey [1692-1743], although his torians are not positive...