Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst beating any college has ever given Stanford." For your information: on Nov. 19, 1921, at Palo Alto, our Golden Bears-which the Press of that time had dubbed the "Wonder Team"-helped Stanford dedicate its brand-new stadium, barely completed on time for the game, to the tune of a 42-7 victory for University of California. Some 60,000 persons witnessed the affair. That was only nine years ago! The lineups...
...Herrings alive! Herrings alive! Fine Yarmouth bloaters!" cried lusty Yarmouth fisherfolk one morning last week as usual, then changed their tune to "Hurrah for th' Prince o' Wales...
Clanking along through Indiana in a daycoach in the early 1890's, the conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra removed his cuff and jotted down on it a tune. A young journalist, who was spending his vacation traveling with the conductor and his orchestra on tour, asked for a copy of the air. At a hotel that evening the musician scribbled the song on a piece of notepaper, gave it to his admirer. The journalist liked it, learned to play it, rendered it so often that his friends later called it his song...
...whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works of William Shakespeare are reputed ageless, most recent Shakespearean productions have been rigged out with modernistic settings, actors in mufti, sundry sensationalisms. In tune with her time, Jane Cowl has for her stage settings a huge book of Shakespeare which is unfolded to make various scenes. Her performance as Viola is lively, her grace and beauty are used to good effect. But Leon Quartermain gives the most worthy interpretation, bringing rich and affecting pathos and frustration...
...troup. There really is no question about that. Why they ever had the name of the Lovely sisters thrust upon them is indeed hard to determine. Will Mahoney's best gag comes towards the end of the show when he dances on a xylophone and plays a tune while doing so. He is, however, entertaining at all times...