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Word: tuneful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive demand that Italy join the Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary. He went to the front in 1916 and was soon severely wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady of the Axis | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...rate of earnings, after fixed charges, there was $2.22 available to pay the $3 a share preferred dividend, leaving the common in the red to the tune of 78? per preferred share. In addition Trustee Wardall must decide how to fit 605,964 shares of no par preferred (valued on the books at $30,298,200) and 1,282,938 shares of $5 par common stock into the drug firm's $27,296,031 net worth. So someone must take a licking. SEC will be interested in this reorganization-its first big test of the Chandler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Accounting | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Incidentally, the "Giornale Radio" of the E.I.A.R., although censored, is the most accurate in Europe. If you don't believe it, just tune in on one (six times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

England last year gave the world the Lambeth Walk. This summer England expects every man and woman to do a dance to a corny waltz tune whose words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boomps, Yips | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...course, that old trouper Shirley Temple, age 10, this time a waif from a waylaid wagon train. Her role in the North-West Mounted Police is: 1) making Orderly J. Farrell MacDonald say his prayers and 2) teaching six-foot-two Randolph Scott to waltz, knees akimbo, to the tune of Learning McFadden to Waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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